The Memory Wars

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we explore the question of repressed memory and address the topic based on current day brain science.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story
0:09.8	strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess.
0:14.9	To be perfectly honest, we don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.
0:20.1	Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard, We don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.
0:23.5	Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times.
0:27.2	We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.
0:31.6	The hard will be really hard and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.
0:36.1	We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.
0:38.4	But we also know that the joy we found is all the more profound because of the pain. So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly
0:43.7	because there will also be joy and hope and humor. Welcome to the ugly truth about the girl
0:48.8	next door. Hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Ugly Truth about the Girl Next Door.
0:57.2	I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. And we are back. So today we have a little bit of a brain science episode.
1:05.5	Everybody's favorite. Everybody loves Lori's brain science. But we are addressing it because while we're done going back and forth with Cornerstone Church on Grand Island,
1:20.4	and we're done dealing with that whole situation, people have come to us because their new Facebook group that they created,
1:29.3	basically to discredit me, well well they've run enough material to discredit me because there isn't much material to do that but
1:36.2	now they're trying to discredit all of trauma memory yeah and brain science about memory and
1:43.5	traumatic memory and so other survivors have science about memory and traumatic memory. And so other survivors
1:45.4	have come to us and said, like, I can't, this is so disturbing that they are posting these
1:52.2	things, again, to try to discredit me and my memories, but what they're actually doing is
1:57.3	like trying to discredit all memories. And again, reinforcing the idea that if you're going to disclose or get help for sexual abuse
2:05.2	or any kind of, don't go to the church.
2:08.3	No, my God, no, absolutely not.
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