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This Is Actually Happening

What if you couldn't stop shining? [Rebroadcast #189]

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in a home of abandonment and neglect, a teenager finds a grand, new reality in the rabbit hole of addiction until they can no longer find their way back.


Today’s guest prefers to remain anonymous, but if you’d like to reach out to them, you can email at [email protected]


Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits


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Content/Trigger Warnings: psychosis, drug use, child neglect, childhood trauma, explicit language


Website: www.thisisactuallyhappening.com

  

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Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Enter the Lair/Drone” – SkyeVoyager https://linktr.ee/SkyeVoyager

 

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If you or someone you know is struggling with the effects of trauma or mental illness, please refer to the following resources.

 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.

0:04.2

Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Today we continue with the third episode of our annual six-week summer rebroadcast series.

0:22.4

We'll return with all new episodes starting

0:24.6

September 10th. Today's rebroadcast episode, What if you couldn't stop

0:28.5

shining? Originally aired as episode 189 on May 4th, 2021.

0:37.0

That feeling that you get when you find out an important piece of information that aha moment was happening

0:47.2

constantly I felt as if somebody put my brain into a microwave. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne.

1:05.0

You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 189. What if you couldn't stop shining?

1:30.0

This episode is sponsored by It ends with us. Based on the global best-selling phenomenon by Colleen Hoover,

1:33.2

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1:38.0

Blink Lively stars as Lily Bloom,

1:40.8

a woman embarking on a noon life in Boston after overcoming a traumatic childhood.

1:46.5

A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle sparks an intense connection.

1:51.8

But as they fall in love, Lily begins to see sight of Ryle that reminder of her parents' problematic relationship.

1:59.5

When Lily's first Love Atlas reenters her life and her relationship with Ryle is upended,

2:04.0

Lily realizes she must rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

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