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Podcast: Spirit of Recovery
Episode: From Surviving to Thriving—Releasing Shame, Healing Trauma
Description: Research indicates that people who have the disease of addiction have experienced higher rates of childhood or adolescent trauma than the general population. The ability to live with joy and fulfillment and maintain long-term recovery grows when old traumas are faced and healed. Special guest Marilyn Van Derbur is the author of Miss America By Day—first-place winner of the prestigious Writer’s Digest Award as the "Most Inspirational Book" published in 2003, and a passionately effective advocate for the prevention of and recovery from childhood sexual abuse. Her exceptionally successful career began with being crowned Miss America 1958 and blossomed as a hig...