Maybe I'm just like weird maybe I'm crunchy this is the southern tea with

Lindsay Chrisly I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these

people write their children's accomplishments on the back.

I don't love them.

A southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life

while staying true to her roots.

I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now.

Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea.

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Here's Lindsay.

Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea.

I am super excited because today we have Nicole Bedera PhD author trauma informed expert who is on a

mission to dismantle silence and amplify voices that have long been

silenced and I am so excited to have you good

morning. Thank you I'm so excited to be here. Tell me everything. This is the

perfect opening question.

One of my closest friends, actually, when we met, that's what she said.

She just sat down and said, tell me your whole life story.

So the place that I would want to start is about just a little

bit of background about how I got into this work. I think it's important to

know the perspective that I'm coming from and so I used to be a victim advocate. I used to work inside the

criminal justice system specifically in the hospitals with sexual assault

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