RERUN - Surviving Sandy Hook and The Lifelong Journey of Healing with Ella Seaver
Conversations with Cam
Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: discussion of mass shootings. In this powerful episode (originally aired on 3/19/25), I sit down with Sandy Hook survivor, Ella Seaver, to discuss the lasting impact of gun violence on mental health, the importance of activism, and the need for change in gun laws. We explore her journey of healing, the challenges of leaving her supportive community for college, and how she's found purpose in pain through advocacy. This conversation sheds light on the often-overlooked mental health consequences of mass shootings and offers a unique perspective on gun violence from someone who experienced it firsthand. For a special intro to this episode, we are joined by CBS News correspondent and journalist, Steve Hartman, to talk about Netflix’s new documentary, All The Empty Rooms, a seven-year-long project that documents the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. This episode is a reminder to us all that we can no longer become numb to this issue.
Key Takeaway / Points:
What led Steve Hartman to embark on the project, All The Empty Rooms
Steve’s emotional experience documenting the empty bedrooms left behind of children killed in school shootings
Steve’s hope to bring awareness and open minds through watching this documentary
Ella shares the lasting mental health impact of surviving a mass shooting
Challenges of leaving a supportive community after experiencing trauma
The importance of therapy and mental health resources for survivors
How activism can provide purpose in pain and healing for survivors
The need for an assault weapon bans
The "spiderweb effect" of gun violence on families and communities
Ella’s journey towards healing and finding her voice
The role of therapy and grounding techniques in managing PTSD symptoms
The impact of "thoughts and prayers" versus actionable change
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Conversations with Cam. |
| 0:01.8 | Today's episode, I'm just going to like dive right in. |
| 0:05.2 | It's a very intense one. |
| 0:06.9 | And I know it's very tempting to see this title or to read the description and be like, oh, no, I cannot listen to that. |
| 0:15.9 | And I understand. |
| 0:17.2 | I fully understand. |
| 0:18.7 | But I actually need you to listen to this episode because this is a topic |
| 0:21.9 | that we all desperately need to care more about. And it is so serious and so heartbreaking |
| 0:31.4 | and so earth-shattering. And unfortunately, the reality for us Americans, and we need to care more because we need change. |
| 0:40.2 | So I'm going to lay out a few different almost intros of this episode. |
| 0:45.7 | First, I just want to highlight March 4th, an organization that we mentioned in the interview |
| 0:51.5 | with Ella. I am honored to serve on the Impact Board of March 4th. |
| 0:56.4 | It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to end mass shootings. They are not looking |
| 1:01.0 | to take away the Second Amendment, but they are looking to take weapons of war off of our streets. |
| 1:05.7 | I've been involved with them for, I want to say, two years now. It is one of my greatest honors to be able to go to |
| 1:15.1 | D.C. and lobby and meet with Congress and do the work that I do with them. I will link in the |
| 1:21.0 | show notes, the interview with their founder, Kitty. She is incredible. The work they're doing |
| 1:27.1 | is amazing. I will link their |
| 1:28.9 | website in the show notes. Please, I beg you. I assume you will be very moved by this episode. |
| 1:34.6 | Check out the work that they are doing. Sign their petition, donate, sign up to volunteer, |
| 1:41.0 | send it to friends. We need more people to care about this topic. |
| 1:46.1 | The actual interview of this episode is a rerun with Ella Seaver. |
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