Julie's Story (Part 1) : He Told Me My Bruises Were Beautiful [Trigger Warning]

Today Jan sits down with Julie Neal, a Thrivivor Jan met and made fast friends with at a Sapria retreat. The first episode of this two-parter covers Julies traumatic childhood living in the home of her abuser, her step-father, while her mother willingly turned a blind eye to the abuse. This episode is intense, Julie pulls no punches while telling her story, and while you will learn the coping skills she had to develop to survive and see a glimmer of how she healed, this episode is as heavy as...