Defiance of Silence - A Sacred Witness
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Podcast Overview
<p><br></p><p>Defiance of Silence — A Sacred Witness is a space for human stories.</p><p><br></p><p>Hosted by Valerie — a U.S. Army veteran, nurse, survivor, and trauma-informed witness — this podcast explores the quiet things people carry and what happens when they finally have a place to tell the truth about them.</p><p><br></p><p>Through honest conversations with survivors, veterans, caregivers, healthcare workers, healers, advocates, and everyday people, we explore trauma, grief, moral injury, recovery, identity, caregiving, resilience, and the many ways human beings learn to keep going after life changes them.</p><p><br></p><p>Some stories center on trauma. Others explore healing, service, loss, faith, purpose, or the unseen weight carried by those who witness suffering every day.</p><p><br></p><p>Here, we don’t rush stories.<br> We don’t fix people.<br> We witness them.</p><p><br></p><p>This is not therapy.<br> This is not performance.<br> This is a space where truth can land without spectacle.</p><p><br></p><p>A field of human stories.<br> A place to feel less alone.</p><p><br></p><p>Take what steadies you. Leave what doesn’t.</p><p><br></p><p>New episodes every other week.</p><p><br></p>
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Publishing Since
9/10/2025
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Recent Episodes
July 15, 2026
Tennille - Pink Boxing Gloves
At 41, Tennille went from setting up surgical trays for breast cancer reconstruction to sitting on the other side of the operating table with a diagnosis of her own. After twenty-five years as a surgical technologist, she recognized the warning signs before anyone had to tell her. What followed was a whirlwind of scans, bloodwork, chemotherapy, radiation, multiple surgeries, and the long road of learning what it means to become the patient. In this conversation, Tennille shares what it was li...
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Suzette - They Need Love
Healing gets strange when the chaos finally stops and you start missing it. That’s where Valerie and Suzette go in this conversation, tracing recovery beyond “not drinking” and into the deeper work of emotional sobriety, shame, and the patterns that keep us braced for impact even when life is calm. Suzette is a U.S. Army Veteran, transformational leader, and Director of Development at Save A Warrior, where she helps expand access to healing for Veterans, Active Duty Military, Ohio First Respo...
June 17, 2026
Breanna - Moral Injury
The hardest part of trauma is not always what happened. Sometimes it's what it taught you to believe about yourself. In this episode, Valerie sits down with Breanna —a Navy veteran, suicide prevention specialist, and moral injury specialist with Volunteers of America—for a conversation about the wounds too many veterans carry in silence and the paths that can lead them home to themselves. We explore Military Sexual Trauma (MST) as a betrayal-based trauma and the layers that often accompany it...
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- What is Defiance of Silence - A Sacred Witness?
<p><br></p><p>Defiance of Silence — A Sacred Witness is a space for human stories.</p><p><br></p><p>Hosted by Valerie — a U.S. Army veteran, nurse, survivor, and trauma-informed witness — this podcast explores the quiet things people carry and what happens when they finally have a place to tell the truth about them.</p><p><br></p><p>Through honest conversations with survivors, veterans, caregivers, healthcare workers, healers, advocates, and everyday people, we explore trauma, grief, moral injury, recovery, identity, caregiving, resilience, and the many ways human beings learn to keep going after life changes them.</p><p><br></p><p>Some stories center on trauma. Others explore healing, service, loss, faith, purpose, or the unseen weight carried by those who witness suffering every day.</p><p><br></p><p>Here, we don’t rush stories.<br> We don’t fix people.<br> We witness them.</p><p><br></p><p>This is not therapy.<br> This is not performance.<br> This is a space where truth can land without spectacle.</p><p><br></p><p>A field of human stories.<br> A place to feel less alone.</p><p><br></p><p>Take what steadies you. Leave what doesn’t.</p><p><br></p><p>New episodes every other week.</p><p><br></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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