Toxic Positivity to Truth: Shame, Rage & Parenting Through Trauma w/ Alwynn
Adult Child
Andrea
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the memories come back—but no one believes you? This is a story about shame, survival, and what it means to heal while raising the very children you’re terrified of hurting.
In this episode, Andrea sits down with Alwynn, former host of Let Me Be Free, to talk about the long, messy road from toxic positivity to truth. From repressed memories and rage to parenting through trauma, this conversation is a raw look at what it really means to heal.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Repressed trauma doesn’t stay buried forever — it shows up through the body, through emotional flashbacks, through parenting patterns, and through the parts of ourselves we don’t fully understand until we’re ready to remember.
- Toxic positivity is a survival strategy — and letting go of it can be the first step toward facing what we’ve spent a lifetime avoiding.
- Parenting while healing is messy, triggering, and sacred work — and real repair starts with self-forgiveness and honesty, not perfection.
- Shame thrives in secrecy — and healing begins when we can name our experiences, be witnessed, and know that we’re not the only ones.
- Breaking the cycle means confronting family denial, rewriting narratives, and grieving the childhood we didn’t have — even when others would rather we stay quiet.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What we don't need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human. |
| 0:06.8 | My name is Andrea, and this is Adult Child. |
| 0:22.0 | What's making you slow now? |
| 0:25.2 | I'm just let it all go. |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome back to a adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:33.1 | Ahoy, my dear shit shows. |
| 0:35.6 | For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. |
| 0:37.9 | I am a total and complete shit show. |
| 0:40.0 | I am a recovering alcoholic. |
| 0:42.0 | I am a recovering adult child of an alcoholic and dysfunctional family. |
| 0:46.9 | I am not a therapist. |
| 0:48.4 | I am not a professional. |
| 0:49.7 | I am just another bozo on this healing bus who facilitates raw and real conversations about what the |
| 0:59.1 | hell to do about a fucked up childhood. And yes, we curse here. You've been warned. I'm an acquired |
| 1:03.5 | taste. You've been warned. Welcome aboard this hot mess of a ship. So today, we are taking a revisit to, I would say, one of the most powerful |
| 1:15.6 | interviews today, one of the most powerful episodes of adult child. And this was with |
| 1:21.0 | Alwyn, who is, or rather, I should say, she was the host of the podcast. Let Me Be Free, which she hosted with her sister, and it was about their trauma healing |
| 1:33.0 | journey. |
| 1:34.5 | And this conversation is some, some vulnerable shit, okay? |
| 1:39.7 | This is a very vulnerable and raw conversation. |
| 1:43.8 | This is the prime example of how shining a light on |
| 1:49.9 | the shame and pain of our past is the path to freedom. And this episode is for the parent |
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