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Dissociated
Dissociated — Breaking Silence. Building Joy.
There was a time when silence was survival. But silence doesn’t last forever.
Host Sheryl Brown survived fifteen years of childhood sexual abuse by her adoptive father. Decades later, when her niece came forward about the same man, Sheryl finally found her voice.
In this deeply personal and hopeful podcast, she shares her journey from trauma to truth — and the light she discovered through the cracks.
Each episode blends intimate storytelling with conversations from survivors, therapists, and authors, exploring what it means to heal, to reclaim your power, and to build joy after pain.
Because the cracks in our stories aren’t where we break.
They’re where the light gets in.
Episodes
11 episodes
S1 | E10 | Still Here. Still Healing.
After a period of silence, I’m returning to Dissociated with honesty about why I disappeared… and where we’re going next.In this episode, I reflect on the emotional impact of sharing my story publicly after receiving painful bac...
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S1 | E9 | Adulting While Dissociated
On the outside, everything looked fine.I was working, going to school, building relationships, and following the path I thought I was supposed to take. I was doing what was expected of me… and doing it well. But internally, I...
S1 | E8 | When The Truth Costs Everything
Why didn’t you leave?Why didn’t you tell someone?Why did you keep the peace?These are the questions survivors hear every day.But they assume something that isn’t true — that leaving is simple, and that tel...
S1 | E7 | The First Boundary
In this episode, I revisit the season after dissociation became my survival strategy and share a layer I hadn’t spoken about before — the moment I stopped only enduring and started pleading.I talk about trying to protect my si...
S1 | E6 | When Dissociation Became Survival
In this episode, the abuse reaches its most relentless form. Access expands. Protection thins. Fear no longer comes in spikes — it becomes constant.This is the season when summer stopped being a break and became exposure. When...
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S1 | E5 | Enduring What Feels Impossible
In this episode, I continue the childhood timeline and move into the middle years — a period where what had already begun didn’t stop, but quietly adapted.As my body changed and my awareness grew, the harm reshaped itself arou...
S1 | E4 | Groomed: Living Two Lives to Survive
In this episode, I return to my childhood timeline during a period when grooming intensified and survival became something my body learned before my mind could name it.I share how gradual boundary shifts, confusion, and manipulation trai...
S1 | E3 | Surviving What You Can't Control
Before returning to the childhood timeline, this episode slows down to explain what was happening inside me while the abuse was unfolding — how my body and brain adapted to survive experiences I couldn’t control.We explore survival respo...
S1 | E2 | The Man the World Chose to See
Content Warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse and its long-term impacts. Please take care while listening.In Episode 2 of Dissociated, Sheryl takes listeners back to the beginning — before she ha...
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