If She Can Come Back From This, So Can You

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 17, 2026 · 42m

Trauma tried everything on Adriene Caldwell — and it failed. She survived what most people can't imagine, numbed the pain for years, and built a wall where every brick was a trauma and the mortar was unshed tears, until her daughter arrived and failure stopped being an option.

The author of Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines shares how writing it forced the wall down, why she refused to make herself the hero of her own story, what silence costs survivors, and the pottery tradition that repairs broken things with gold. Resilience isn't being untouched — it's taking the hit and still standing…