Welcome back to the Trauma cast, a podcast where women talk about their trauma. Now Brandy, you actually mentioned that you had some trauma on the way here?

Yeah, I was coming in on the elevator and I was bumped. That does sound traumatic. You know, to be honest, I've just dealt with so much trauma in my life that sometimes I don't realize when an event is traumatic.

Now I can sense that you're repressing the trauma associated with the bumping but at some point you're going to have to explore that trauma in depth if you want to feel whole again.

As a child of divorce, I can attest to that.

Oh my God, that must have been so fished.

Very much so.

You know, if that trauma is too fresh, I don't want to.

My parents just walked in the room and said,

we've been waiting for you to finish college

to break the news, but here it is.

Oh fuck that's traumatic.

They brought the trauma to your personal space adding trauma to injury.

Now I say that not to take away from the trauma of the bumping that took place

but to let you know I understand the traumatic implications

the trauma will have someone who recently went through a traumatic breakup nine years ago I can

say I didn't realize that you were only nine years into dealing with the trauma

of a breakup can you talk about it or is the trauma too fresh?

When you spend every day with someone for weeks

and then out of nowhere they just decide to stay with their husband,

it can have traumatic consequences.

Poor wounded soul.

The fact that you got out of bed this morning to come to this studio is nothing less than heroic.

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