The Trauma Sponge

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Norton has been a firefighter for over 20 years, a job that’s considered heroic and honorable…a job that sometimes means showing up to a false alarm…and sometimes means soaking up the trauma of the city around you. Jeremy has been a TTFA listener since day one. His first book — The Trauma Sponges: Dispatches From The Scarred Heart of Emergency Response — is out October 10, 2023. Link: https://bookshop.org/a/12538/9781517914189 Listener support makes our independent podcast possible. Consider joining our Patreon to get bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, and join a community of Terribles. (Or, if you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can sign up for TTFA Premium right in the app!) Our Substack is a great way to connect with us and other listeners (and get more Terrible in your inbox). Join us here. — We’re lucky to only work with sponsors and brands we know and love. Using our links and codes saves you money and supports our independent production! Liquid IV: Get 20% off when you go to liquidiv.com and use code TTFA at checkout. BetterHelp: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/ttfa to get started with 10% off your first month. Learn more at BetterHelp.com Squarespace: Go to Squarespace.com/TTFA and use offer code TTFA to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Hatch: Right now, Hatch is offering our listeners $20 off your purchase of a Hatch Restore and free shipping at hatch.co/ttfa. Sleep deeply and wake gently with the Restore - go to hatch.co/ttfa to get $20 off and free shipping! Bookshop.org: You can save 10% on your next order when you shop at Bookshop.org/TTFA and use code TERRIBLE at checkout. You can find our full sponsor list here. — Find all our shows and our store at feelingsand.co. Find TTFA on social: TTFA on Instagram | TTFA on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.2	Come on out, you can come alone, you will meet a friend, you can get your tickets at
0:31.7	the link in our show description or at Happy-ish Holidays.com.
0:39.8	How are you?
0:43.4	Most people answer that question with fine or good, but obviously it's not always fine
0:51.2	and it's usually not even that good.
0:55.4	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain.
1:00.4	To just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard parts of life, and guess what?
1:10.5	It's complicated.
1:12.5	I think it's a civil service job and the same way we have incomprehensible bike lanes,
1:23.5	the cities overall, you know, plans and stuff are just going to break your heart.
1:29.8	I'm Nora McNerney and this is terrible, thanks for asking.
1:36.1	That's going to be a far call for one or both of the other ranks.
1:58.5	And that is Jeremy Norton, trying to sit down for an interview with our senior producer
2:03.8	Marcel Malikibu.
2:05.4	I've been with Minneapolis for 23 years.
2:08.2	I'm the rank of Captain, which is a supervisor, first line supervisor.
2:15.0	Survey a group of little kids and at least one of them will tell you that they want to be
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