We all have two lives.

The second begins the moment we realize we have only one.

A storytelling podcast about people who faced darkness and how those incidents transformed them.

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Understanding Intergenerational Trauma Helps One Woman Heal

Before she even knew the word for intergenerational trauma Manpreet Johal Bernie could see it in her own family. It wasn’t until her father died that Manpreet read a self help book about loving herself that she realized she didn't. Today Manpreet coaches people through their own intergenerational trauma using mind body techniques.

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Oklahoma City Bombing Survivor Turns Hope Into A Verb

In her twenties Amy Downs was living what she called a complacent, shallow existence. She felt empty and alone. When she discovered her husband couldn’t fix her life, she coped by eating. It wasn’t until tragedy struck on April 19, 1995, that she turned her life around.

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Family Attempts To Save An Endangered Language, One Child At A Time

Yuchi is one of more than 3,000 endangered indigenous languages. Many Native American tribes offer language classes to elementary school students, but linguists say the best way to learn is starting at birth. Halay and Jiles Turning Heart have banned English from their home in an attempt to save Yuchi.

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Once Overmedicated, Jay Shifman Seeks To Educate And Empower

Jay Shifman has made it his mission to end stigma surrounding addiction and help people tell their own stories because he was over diagnosed and over medicated to the point of two suicide attempts before he told his story and found a way out.

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Hopi Quechan Artist Jonah Hill Dreams In Color

Growing up Jonah Hill was bullied for being half Hopi. So his dad taught him the ways of his Quechan ancestors and Jonah found a sense of wholeness. Those warrior teachings became crucial when once again he felt a part of himself missing.

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Amy Green Smith Loses Her Religion, Finds Her Voice

Amy Green Smith felt silenced by guilt and fear growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family. It wasn’t until she came face to face with her father’s dead body that she had the courage to leave her religion, stop placating her family, and use her voice.

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