In this episode, I sit down with Laura Marston for one of the most raw and honest conversations we’ve had on Dysfunctional.
Laura shares her journey from being labelled and sectioned, spending years in and out of psychiatric units, struggling with addiction, and being told she had a “disordered personality”… to beginning to understand her experiences through the lens of trauma.
We talk about emotional neglect, family dysfunction, self-harm, psychosis, and what it’s like to grow up without your needs being met.
But more than anything, this episode is about what happens when you stop seeing yourself as broken… and start taking your life back.
We also explore:
Laura also shares how she’s now supporting others through resilience coaching and community, and what helped her move from survival mode into something that actually feels like living.
This one is raw, emotional, and incredibly powerful.
Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of self-harm, suicide, childhood trauma, abuse, addiction and psychiatric hospitalisation.
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