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Through raw conversations with her younger selves, Megan Margherio invites us into the messy, real-time process of healing and reclaiming safety, worthiness, and her voice in her memoir Everwoven. She says, “This book is both a reckoning with the versions of me I repeatedly abandoned along the way and a reclamation of my identity. It is the story of recognizing that what felt like personal failure was often a survival adaptation. It is my way of honoring the versions of me that were forced to stay silent and the version I am today that is learning how to live beyond it all.” Join Megan and Nicole as they discuss joy, self-trust, healing modalities, parenting, and everything in between.   Megan's Substack: https://meganmargherio.substack.com

Special Guest: Elizabeth Berget joins us to discuss her recently released book "Love Like A Mother: How The Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God" More info: elizabethberget.com

Jane Epstein and Diane Tarantini join us again but this time TOGETHER to discuss the upcoming "Sibling Sexual Trauma & Abuse Conference:
 Breaking the Silence" to be held on June 23, 2026 at Long Island University, NY. A one-day, lived-experience-led gathering bringing survivors, parents, practitioners, researchers, and students together to move this field forward — safely, collaboratively, and with integrity. Details and registration: https://www.5waves.org/conference   "Raising Safe Siblings" is an online course equipping parents and child safety professionals to recognize, prevent, and address sibling harm: psychological, physical, and/or sexual. View the first module for free here: https://www.toughtopicsmom.com/raising-safe-siblings. In a story that reads like a fairy tale, The Brave Knight children's book helps kids recognize what "grooming" is--the process a predator (or bully) uses to gain the trust of a potential victim and sometimes their family. The Brave Knight is available here: https://amzn.to/422QL7I. Everyone Was Silent: A memoir--shows how Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse (SSTA) can happen in a middle-class family in America. https://amzn.to/4tE05ev   "I Feel Real Guilty," a memoir : https://a.co/d/01PEu135

Special Guest: Melanie Barton is a Survivor, Advocate and Forensic Interviewer. This is her 3rd appearance on the OneVOICE Podcast (2022 "Victory Over Pelvic Pain", 2024 "Loving and Being Loved After Trauma")

Guest: Darlene Lekowski is an Amazon best-selling author, speaker, and business leader who transformed decades of silence into a powerful platform for truth, healing, and advocacy. After fifty years of silence surrounding the Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse (SSTA) she endured as a child, Darlene found her voice and chose to stand in her truth—ultimately prevailing in a civil lawsuit brought against her by her own brother. Her memoir is titled "Shattering Silence: A Story of Survival, Justice and the Power of Telling the Truth" and website is darlene-lekowski.com

Guest: Mary Van Geffen is the international parenting coach for Spicy Ones, as well as a Spicy One herself.  Author of “Parenting a Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Deep-Feeling and Wonderfully Strong-Willed Kid”. Mary helps parents cultivate connection with their strong-willed kid, teaching that you can't extend compassion to your child if you withhold it from yourself. When you change, everything shifts—old patterns lose their grip, love becomes unconditional, and boundaries grow flexible yet strong. more info and ro pre-order: maryvangeffen.com

Special Guest: Dan Wetzel, ESPN Senior Writer.  Link to his latest article: https://www.espn.com/high-school/story/_/id/45852691/fbi-extortion-online-youth Link to Take It Down: https://takeitdown.ncmec.org

Special Guest: Brinn Langdale, sibling sexual abuse survivor turned licensed therapist, and author of the just released memoir "Everything Makes Perfect Sense: A Journey Through Sibling Sexual Abuse, Healing and Forgiveness". Brinn's mission is to help those who’ve experienced childhood trauma know that everything they do makes perfect sense and that healing is possible. brinnlangdale.com

Guest: Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Dallas Morning News. She is the author of the new book “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery”.   More info: mallarytenoretarpley.com

Guest: Heidi Yewman is a gun control advocate, abuse survivor and author of her new memoir “Dumb Girl: A Journey from Childhood Abuse to Gun Control”, a raw, unflinching look at the long road from trauma to healing—reflects the heart of her life’s work: to foster empathy, break silence, and create change. Heidi’s commitment to trauma advocacy began in 1999, when her former teacher and basketball coach, Dave Sanders, was killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Since then, she has spent over two decades elevating the stories of those affected by gun violence and trauma, believing that honest conversations can lead to lasting solutions. Heidi is an award-winning director and producer of "Behind the Bullet", a documentary that follows the lives of people who have shot and killed in self-defense. She also authored Beyond the Bullet: Personal Stories of Gun Violence Aftermath and has written for USA Today, Ms. Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, and The Huffington Post. Her widely recognized four-part series, My Month with a Gun, was featured in Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Denver Post. Learn more at heidiyewman.com

Amy Meyers, Ph.D., LCSW, is a professor, psychotherapist, and clinical social worker. Dr. Meyers has 30 years of practice experience in New York City and has taught in higher education for 18 years and is an expert on sibling abuse, serving as an advisory board member to the Sibling Abuse and Aggression Research Advocacy Initiative at the University of New Hampshire. She is also the host of the podcast “What Would Dr. Meyers Do?” More info www.amymeyersphd.org

Seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell joins us to discuss her new memoir “Girl, Groomed: A Therapist’s Memoir of Trauma” (She Writes Press, April 22, 2025), an unflinching exploration of her journey to confront and heal from the complex trauma of childhood sexual abuse within the world of Virginia’s equestrian show-jumping circuit.  Raw and riveting, “Girl, Groomed” is an evolving story of coming to terms with the impacts of Odell’s own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Set in the equestrian world of Virginia, this candid memoir details how, starting at ten years old, Carol falls under the spell of Clarentine, the charismatic—and explosively violent—owner of the stables just down the hill from her house. In tandem with that story, Carol examines the multi-faceted consequences of the complex trauma that resulted from the exploitative relationship Clarentine cultivated with her - including the resulting crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult. Using her own journey as an example, Carol demonstrates in this insightful memoir how unintegrated trauma limits us and our connection with others—and how the work of uncovering and reintegrating “what we do with what happens to us” can become the very source of our liberation.

Special Returning Guest: Jane Epstein, survivor of sibling sexual abuse and author of the newly released memoir “I Feel Real Guilty”

Guest: Dr. Camden Morgante is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of the new release Recovering from Purity Culture: Dismantle the Myths, Reject Shame-Based Sexuality, and Move Forward in Your Faith. Dr. Morgante draws on both her personal and professional experience with purity culture recovery—using psychological research, practical exercises, and therapy case studies—to help the hurting reject toxic beliefs, understand trauma and its effects, and break free from shame. Learn more at DrCamden.com

Special Guest Survivor Adrienne shares her story of becoming a victim of relationship violence and her year of recovery