How Trauma Shows Up in Relationships: Codependency, Triggers & Healing w/ Jeremiah & Mallory Campbell
Adult Child
Andrea
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
If you don't address your childhood trauma, your romantic relationships will. This is episode raw look at what happens when childhood wounds show up in adult relationships—and what it takes to break the cycle, together.
Andrea sits down with Jeremiah and Mallory Campbell for a brutally honest look at how trauma, codependency, and unresolved childhood wounds shaped their relationship. From addiction and estrangement to postpartum depression and nervous system shutdown, they share what it really took to begin healing—individually and together.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Childhood trauma doesn’t disappear in adulthood—it shows up in the way we fight, shut down, or try to fix our partner’s feelings.
- Codependency often looks like love at first. Jeremiah and Mallory share how enmeshment and emotional caretaking kept them stuck—and what it took to shift toward healthy interdependence.
- Family estrangement is grief with no clean ending. Mallory opens up about going no-contact with her parents and the emotional fallout of choosing boundaries over belonging.
- Healing while parenting means reparenting yourself, too. The Campbells share how their children’s emotional needs became mirrors for their own unhealed wounds.
- Breaking the cycle takes more than awareness—it takes nervous system work, real communication, and the willingness to get uncomfortable.
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| 0:00.0 | Unhealed trauma can have you loving those who hurt you and hurting those who love you. |
| 0:07.6 | My name is Andrea and this is an old child. |
| 0:22.0 | What's your holding on to let it all go what's making you slow now |
| 0:24.7 | I'm letting it all go. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome back to an old child |
| 0:27.4 | where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional |
| 0:31.7 | family. |
| 0:32.7 | Ahoy my dear shit shows. |
| 0:35.3 | Shishaw Nation. |
| 0:36.6 | It's been a while since I've done that. |
| 0:39.0 | For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. |
| 0:41.2 | I am a total and complete shit show. |
| 0:43.4 | I am a recovering alcoholic. |
| 0:45.7 | I am a recovering adult child of an alcoholic family. |
| 0:50.1 | I found myself in one toxic relationship after the next, |
| 0:53.8 | not knowing what the hell was wrong with me, |
| 0:56.8 | and then realized that my childhood impacted me a whole hell of a lot more than I initially thought that it did |
| 1:03.4 | and that I was suffering from complex PTSD. |
| 1:06.9 | No clue. |
| 1:07.4 | No damn clue that that's what was going on. |
| 1:09.1 | And there's so many people out there who also have |
| 1:11.0 | no damn clue, who also have no damn clue just how impactful their childhood actually was and all |
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