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Hosted by Brooke Scherer · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 67 episodes
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Trauma Uncensored is a weekly trauma and grief podcast about what life actually looks like after everything changes. Hosted by Brooke Scherer, the show begins with the loss of her 9-year-old son Logan, who was killed by a distracted driver in 2016. What followed wasn't closure. It was courtrooms, headlines, and years of trying to survive something no one prepares you for.This is the unfiltered side of trauma recovery: Real survivor stories, honest conversations about grief and healing, and the tools that actually help.
Brooke Scherer hosts Trauma Uncensored, a health show with 67 episodes published.
Part 1 of this conversation ended with Michelle Bandy Davis meeting the man who would become her husband at nineteen. Part 2 picks up the marriage itself: a whirlwind romance with a charismatic, persistent man that slowl
Michelle Bandy Davis was unwanted before she was born, and she knew it. Conceived by two teenagers in a small Indiana town, she grew up in a home defined by addiction and chaos, where sexual abuse started when she was th
Childhood trauma, toxic family dynamics, and what it actually takes to go no contact and mean it. Daniel Rothrock grew up watching his mother's addiction consume the one relationship he could count on, until a single nig
Distracted driving, traumatic brain injury, and the 17-year fight to make one phone call a crime. Jacy Good joins Brooke this week, and her story starts on the happiest day of her life. This is a conversation about the l
Grief support, complicated grief, and what it takes to fight for the truth while planning a funeral. Melanie Brockmeier-Jordy joins Brooke this week, and her husband's death started with something as small as a cut toe.
Grief support, trauma healing, and the nervous system cost of being the helper. Pediatric palliative care social worker Alisha McGuire returns, and this time the grief followed her home. What happens when the person who
Troy Frostad was a corporate executive living a normal life when a stage four colon cancer diagnosis stopped everything. What followed was 12 rounds of chemo, a 16-hour surgery, and a five-year fight he’s still in. This
Your nervous system was never working against you. Every survival response you developed -- the freeze, the shutdown, the hypervigilance -- served a purpose. It helped you make it. EMDR therapist Alice Stricklin joins Br
Secondary trauma, first responder marriages, and the invisible weight of the spouse's role — this is what it actually costs to love someone who runs toward danger for a living. Kate Carr has been married to Boston Police
HPV-related cancer diagnoses, all linked to his choices, all arriving while she was still processing the betrayal. In this episode, Eileen shares what it actually looks like to carry layered trauma in your body, why she
Mandy Hamlin sent her 20-year-old son Cooper to a licensed, accredited rehab facility in California, charging $4,200 a day. She vetted it. She FaceTimed him the night before he died. The next afternoon, she found out he
Grief support and trauma healing take on a whole new dimension when you meet someone who has survived what most of us can barely imagine. Kelly Guay has lost her mother, her brother, a stillborn son, her husband, and her
What happens when the person helping families through death is quietly carrying grief of her own at home? Alisha sat with families in their most devastating moments while simultaneously managing a long-distance caregivin
Childhood trauma doesn't just shape your past; it shapes who you think you deserve to become. For Marla Grant, it shaped 27 years of surviving domestic violence, PTSD, complex trauma, and the calculated plan it took to f
We've all heard it: 'He's just being a boy' or 'He'll grow out of it.' But what if he doesn't? What if that 'phase' is actually deeply rooted shame? Today, therapist Jarrod Hoffman joins us to pull back the curtain on th
Rita Peters lost her husband Shawn to familial ALS in February 2022. Four months later, she lost his younger brother to the same disease. In this conversation, Rita walks Brooke through what it actually feels like to gri
Brooke sits down with Chris Carr, a 20 year Boston Police officer whose career spans patrol, special operations, SWAT, and now the academy. Chris shares how law enforcement ran in his family, then walks through the momen
Brooke sits down with Cassie Dobbs, a licensed professional counselor, registered art therapist, and fellow in thanatology with Riley Grief Services at Riley Children’s Health. Cassie shares how losing her dad at 18 shap
For Episode 50, Brooke takes us back to the beginning. This is a rerun of Episode 1, the first time she shared the story that started Trauma Uncensored, the day her family’s life split into “before” and “after.” Brooke a
Brooke welcomes back John Kinsey and Carolyn Clennon for a raw, honest conversation about what first responder work really looks like after the adrenaline wears off. They talk about expectation versus reality, how a “sic
Chris Carr
director of performance psychology and team behavioral health clinician · Georgia Attorney General's Office
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Glenn Davis
Director of Construction · Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1 appearance on this show
Cassie Dobbs
Riley Grief Services
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth “Liz” Boring
Riley Grief Services at Riley Children’s Health
1 appearance on this show
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