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Finding Healing from Childhood Trauma in Sobriety and Grace

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Anger can feel like protection until you notice what it’s doing to your body. That’s where we start, with a hard truth and a hopeful one: you can have every right to be angry and still choose grace when you’re ready to stop carrying the weight.

I’m joined by April Garcia, author of *The Room to Be Brave*, to talk about how childhood trauma, family roles, and early rejection shape our adult beliefs about belonging, worth, and safety. April explains her “rooms” framework, where a room can be a house, a school, a state, or a single moment you still remember…

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