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How Childhood Abuse Shapes Addiction and the Slow Work of Healing
Relationships, Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/30/26 Relationships, Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/30/26

How Childhood Abuse Shapes Addiction and the Slow Work of Healing

Brandi Fleck opens up about the abuse that shaped her, the night her family finally ran, and what childhood trauma healing actually looked like for her afterward.

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Rare Disease Spotlight: Living With Cushing's Disease Before Diagnosis
Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/29/26 Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/29/26

Rare Disease Spotlight: Living With Cushing's Disease Before Diagnosis

Years of unexplained symptoms led Tiffany Thomason on a long search for answers before she was finally diagnosed with Cushing's disease. She and her husband share the road to diagnosis.

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Rare Disease Spotlight: How to Advocate for Yourself With Doctors
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/29/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/29/26

Rare Disease Spotlight: How to Advocate for Yourself With Doctors

What do you do when you know something is wrong, but no one believes you? Tiffanny and Josh Thomason share the lessons that carried them through years of medical uncertainty.

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How Infertility and a Life-Threatening Pregnancy Changed Their Family
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/26/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/26/26

How Infertility and a Life-Threatening Pregnancy Changed Their Family

Infertility, pregnancy loss, and a life-threatening diagnosis changed the course of Scotty and Carrie Hunt's family forever. In Part 1, they share the story behind it all.

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Adoption and the Search for Your Identity
Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/24/26 Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/24/26

Adoption and the Search for Your Identity

Jason O'Donnell thought he understood where he came from. Then one discovery changed the way he saw his identity, his heritage, and the story he'd carried for years.

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Open Adoption Through a Birth Mother's Eyes
Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/24/26 Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/24/26

Open Adoption Through a Birth Mother's Eyes

What does open adoption look like years later? Birth mother Leah Outten shares the realities of grief, healing, trust, and maintaining a lifelong relationship with her daughter and her adoptive family.

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How to Love Someone Struggling With Addiction
Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/21/26 Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/21/26

How to Love Someone Struggling With Addiction

You can't control someone else's addiction, but you can learn how to heal. Fran Cooper Van Allen shares the personal experiences that changed her understanding of love, loss, and recovery.

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The Truth About Plant-Based Living
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/12/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/12/26

The Truth About Plant-Based Living

A childhood love of animals led Denise Brown to question what was on her plate. She shares how that journey evolved into a plant-based lifestyle rooted in compassion and living in alignment with her values.

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How Healing From Trauma Can Lead to Purpose and Social Change
Personal Development, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 8/12/26 Personal Development, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 8/12/26

How Healing From Trauma Can Lead to Purpose and Social Change

After years of unimaginable loss, Donna Campbell discovered that healing didn't just change her life. It changed what she chose to live for.

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How Art Helps Us Understand the Human Experience
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 8/10/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 8/10/26

How Art Helps Us Understand the Human Experience

Can art teach us who we are? Sculptor Ben Minnis shares how creativity, nature, and even childhood education can deepen human connection, reveal hidden parts of ourselves, and change the way we experience the world.

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How Energy Healing Can Help You Break Old Patterns
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/10/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 8/10/26

How Energy Healing Can Help You Break Old Patterns

For years, Erin Grace struggled with anxiety, depression, and feeling disconnected from herself. She shares how energy healing transformed the way she understood her past and helped her rebuild her sense of self.

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Inside the Foster Care System Through One Foster Mom's Story
Society & Culture, Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/3/26 Society & Culture, Relationships Brandi Fleck 8/3/26

Inside the Foster Care System Through One Foster Mom's Story

Many conversations about foster care focus on the children. This one also explores the foster parents, the biological families, and the emotional reality of loving a child you may have to let go.

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How to Manifest What You Want Through Self-Discovery
Personal Development, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 7/31/26 Personal Development, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 7/31/26

How to Manifest What You Want Through Self-Discovery

Can manifestation really change your life? James Ruzinok shares how self-discovery helped him find purpose after divorce, and why the life you want begins with understanding yourself.

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How to Leave Toxic Relationships and Rebuild Your Life
Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/31/26 Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/31/26

How to Leave Toxic Relationships and Rebuild Your Life

What do you do when someone you love is the person causing you the most harm? Kim Daigle shares how she learned to recognize manipulation and walk away from toxic relationships.

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How Social Worker Burnout Led to a New Life of Service
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 7/31/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 7/31/26

How Social Worker Burnout Led to a New Life of Service

What happens when the work you love starts taking more than it gives? After 12 years in child welfare, Carmen Gosa reached a breaking point. Hear how burnout led her to an unexpected new chapter.

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How Grief Changes You Forever
Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/31/26 Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/31/26

How Grief Changes You Forever

After losing her husband unexpectedly, Laurah Jurca was faced with another unimaginable loss just 12 days later. She opens up about compounded grief, widowhood, mental health, and the small acts of support that made the biggest difference.

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Why We Resist Change: What It Takes to Live Authentically
Personal Development Brandi Fleck 7/28/26 Personal Development Brandi Fleck 7/28/26

Why We Resist Change: What It Takes to Live Authentically

You may know what needs to change and still feel unable to move. Mike Brcic explores why resistance can sound like logic, how emotional safety allows the authentic self to emerge, and what depression, wilderness, play, and music taught him about answering life’s call.

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When Cushing's Disease Was Only the Beginning
Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/16/26 Health & Wellness, Relationships Brandi Fleck 7/16/26

When Cushing's Disease Was Only the Beginning

After years of misdiagnosis, Tiffanny Thomason finally received answers about her Cushing's disease. But treatment uncovered additional rare diseases and new challenges that affected her health, marriage, and plans for the future.

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Saving a Child's Life Doesn't End When They're Safe
Society & Culture, Personal Development Brandi Fleck 7/16/26 Society & Culture, Personal Development Brandi Fleck 7/16/26

Saving a Child's Life Doesn't End When They're Safe

One vacation afternoon turned into a fight to save a toddler's life. Years later, Valerie reflects on performing CPR, the emotional aftermath, and how that single moment changed her perspective forever.

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Escaping the Control of Spiritual Abuse
Spirituality Brandi Fleck 7/16/26 Spirituality Brandi Fleck 7/16/26

Escaping the Control of Spiritual Abuse

When does faith become control? Sarah Gates shares her experience with spiritual abuse, religious trauma, fear-based Christianity, and the difficult journey of rebuilding trust in herself after leaving a controlling faith community.

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