Where I Am Now — A Survivor's Honest Follow-Up

In this follow-up to our two-part series on childhood sexual abuse and systemic failure, Amy gets real about the aftermath — what healing actually looks like, what it cost to get here, and what will never fully go away. She opens with something most survivors rarely name: the difference between reporting your story and actually feeling it. For years, Amy could say the words clearly — "I was sexually abused by my father" — without ever going inside them. Recording those episodes cracked something open. This episode is about what came through that crack. What you'll hear: the ordinary, specific shape of a life well-built. The therapy that went past the narrative and into the body. The relationships that made staying behind the glass impossible. The grief that had to be felt in pieces before it could be carried. And the honest truth that integration doesn't mean resolution — some things stay with you until you die, and making peace with that is its own kind of freedom. Amy also speaks directly to why she believes women telling their stories — felt, inhabited, out loud — is not just personal healing. It is political resistance. We are at the beginning of a cultural reorientation, away from systems that center power and domination, toward something that actually protects children and vulnerable people. That shift is built, story by story, from exactly this. If you've been delivering your own story from a safe distance and wondering why it still doesn't feel like enough — this episode is for you. It's Nothing. I'm Fine. is hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Amy Prieb, recorded in a yurt in Bellingham, Washington.   amyprieb.com insta: @amypriebtherapy facebook: amy prieb lmft