The Truth About Trauma (feat. Matt Wade)
Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley
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4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Savannah sits down with therapist, speaker, and author Matt Wade for a conversation that gets real about relationships, trauma, and what it actually takes to heal. Matt has played a personal role in Savannah’s life over the years, helping her navigate some of the hardest seasons she’s faced, so this episode is less like an interview and more like an honest conversation between two people who’ve done the work.
Matt opens up about the moment his own marriage nearly fell apart and the long road it took to rebuild it. What followed was years of therapy, confronting ego, childhood wounds, and the painful realization that healing requires you to face the parts of yourself you’d rather avoid. Savannah shares pieces of her own journey along the way, including the ways trauma and trust can show up in relationships long after the moment that caused them.
They talk about secrets, emotional safety, attachment styles, and why so many couples unknowingly repeat the same patterns in their relationships. Matt also explains how trauma doesn’t just affect one person or one moment in time. It can carry through families and generations if the work isn’t done.
From inner child work and therapy breakthroughs to the importance of repair after conflict, this episode is full of practical insight for anyone trying to build healthier relationships with themselves and the people they love.
Because healing may be simple… but it’s rarely easy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Unlocked. I am super excited for today's episode because I have |
| 0:06.5 | someone on who has had just a personal impact on my life and what better thing to do than to |
| 0:13.3 | kind of share it with the world. So Matt Wade, welcome. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:18.4 | I am so happy you're here. Yeah, we're going to have a |
| 0:21.0 | good time. I know. You have, you know, we've, how long have we known each other? Probably 10 or 11 |
| 0:27.9 | years. Yeah, right? Exactly. Yeah. Oh, shoot, we did. Yes. I always forget about the first |
| 0:34.6 | first encounter. Yeah. So it's, you just, it's crazy how the world works. |
| 0:41.3 | We met forever ago and then we just keep circling back around. Keep circling back around. |
| 0:46.7 | And just in different phases of life. That's right. You know, you are kind of there for me during |
| 0:51.9 | some really shitty moments. Oh, thank you. Um, and definitely |
| 0:56.6 | helped me get through it and internalize everything and just figure it out. Sure. But you also |
| 1:03.4 | came out with a book, which is called secure 90 days to a more connected relationship. Yes. And I love this. |
| 1:11.1 | I love anything that self-help. |
| 1:13.4 | Of course. |
| 1:13.9 | But I thought to what was really interesting and unique about the book is you open it up with a very raw moment in your own marriage. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | You know, I'm an expert on one thing and that is my marriage. |
| 1:31.4 | If you're going to be an expert on anything, that's the thing to be an expert on. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, we start out talking about really kind of how we hit a wall about 10 or 11 years ago, |
| 1:41.5 | probably 12 years ago now. |
| 1:43.0 | It's kind of getting close to that time frame. |
| 1:45.1 | And do you want me to go into that now? |
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