E17. Secret Out and Foster home

Send us Fan MailTogether, we talk about how early trauma shapes memory, safety, and identity, and why a child can learn to survive by guarding the biggest family rule: Never, never tell!  In this episode, a favorite staffer sits beside her on a porch and listens while Sadie says out loud what she has shielded from sight for years. Rita offers a line that changes everything: "You now have choices." That sentence becomes the first crack in shame, the first step toward foster care, and the first realization that she will be leaving people and a place that she has learned to love.Thanks for listening. Feel free to subscribe and share with others. You can also email us at <[email protected]> or send a voice message from any particular episode on our website, http://SadieStory.Buzzsprout.com.Special Thanks to our supporters, who have made this podcast possible.Lucy Mathews Heegaard: Audio Engineer with music via Epidemic SoundTerry Gydesen: PhotographerPolly KelloggKate TillotsonDawn CharbonneauJacob WyattMolly TillotsonClare DudzinskiJulian BowersWendy HorowitzMaggie KazelPat FarrellLynette TabertLaura JensenPeople's Farm CollectiveDeborah Copperud of "Spock Talk" podcast