True Crime Connections ~ Advocacy Podcast

⚠️ Trigger Warning: Child abuse, trauma, coercive control What happens when survivors speak up... only to be dismissed, discredited, or made to question their own reality? In this episode, Cynthia and I explore a...

<p>⚠️ Trigger Warning: Childhood abuse, sexual abuse, trauma</p><p> What happens when a child speaks up… and no one listens?</p><p> In this episode, I talk with survivor Cheryl Hauk, who lived through years of abuse—and...

<p>⚠️ <b>Trigger Warning: Violence, domestic abuse, murder</b></p><p>What happens when the people who love you… are scared of you?</p><p>In this episode, we talk about something most people don’t see—families who are...

<p>⚠️ <b>Trigger Warning: Emotional abuse, manipulation</b></p><p><b>Why do we miss red flags… even when they’re right in front of us?</b></p><p>In this episode, I sit down with <b>Justin Smith</b>, creator of the...

<p><b>⚠️ Trigger Warning: Emotional abuse, manipulation, fraud</b></p><p><b>Heather Rovet </b>thought she had found love. Instead… she found a conman.</p><p>He was charming. Attentive. Everything she thought she wanted...

<p>Most people know about the 988 Suicide Line. But almost no one knows there’s another number you can call when someone is on the brink of committing mass violence.<br/><br/>In this powerful conversation, Tiffanie sits...

<p>What if raising emotionally strong kids started with healing yourself?<br/>In this episode, Family & Child Counsellor <b>Jacintha Field</b> shares how she transformed the chaos of solo parenting, trauma recovery, and...

<p>Behind the bright lights of Hollywood was a little girl in pain. Hilary Momberger-Powers—once the voice of Sally Brown in the Peanuts cartoons—grew up in chaos, addiction, and abuse. But after hitting rock bottom...

<p>When Terry Garza was just 20 years old, her world was shattered. The father of her daughter went on a violent rampage, killing his mother, nearly killing his brother, and stealing a police car to flee. In the chaos...

<p>Financial abuse is one of the most common — and least talked about — forms of control. It keeps victims trapped, isolated, and questioning their worth.<br/><br/>This week, Amanda Scott joins me to pull back the...

<p>What if writing could help you heal what you don’t have words for?<br/><b>Nadine Ellis </b>is an autistic poet, late-diagnosed and long-dismissed. She’s a survivor of childhood trauma, emotional abuse, and being told...

<p>What if the abuse you went through… started generations before you? And what if no one ever showed you a healthy version of love?<br/><br/>In this episode, therapist and survivor <b>Sophora Acheson</b> shares her...

<p>At just three years old, Avonley Lightstone tried to save her mother from a house fire — but lost her. Shortly after, her father gave her up for adoption, and she endured years of emotional and physical abuse in a...

<p><b>Rosario Chico</b> is a DHS insider, whistleblower, and mother—now facing criminal charges for trying to protect her kids. After reporting abuse, getting a protective order, and being told by DHS to seek emergency...

<p>In 1949, Norman and Anne Browne were enjoying retirement in the peaceful beach town of Crystal Beach, Florida. Until one morning, a stranger returned to their home with a shotgun in his hand and secrets nobody saw...