The Survivors Voice
The Survivor’s Voice is a podcast dedicated to amplifying the stories of resilience, courage, and hope from individuals who have overcome significant challenges. Through heartfelt conversations, each episode provides a platform for survivors to share their experiences, offering inspiration and support to listeners facing similar situations.
Episodes
In this powerful and deeply vulnerable episode of The Survivor’s Voice, Jessaca shares her story for the very first time. It’s a story shaped by generational trauma, severe childhood abuse, abandonment, addiction, and survival in environments where chaos was the norm.
Born to teenage parents and raised amid violence, substance abuse, and instability, Jessaca recounts growing up without safety, consistency, or protection. From physi...
In this special Christmas episode of The Survivor’s Voice, Dena shares a story of heartbreak, endurance, and unexpected grace during one of the most painful seasons of her life.
What began as a marriage rooted in faith slowly unraveled into a double life marked by betrayal, abandonment, and crushing financial strain. As the holidays approached, Dena found herself navigating pregnancy, illness, and uncertainty—while holding everythi...
In part two of Rebecca’s story, the layers deepen—and so does the cost of telling the truth. Rebecca shares how patterns of manipulation and dishonesty from her childhood repeated in adulthood through marriage, motherhood, and systems that were supposed to protect her.
Rebecca walks us through a relationship built on lies, emotional abuse, and control, including infidelity, gaslighting, and boundary violations that escalated over t...
In this conversation, Rebecca courageously opens up about her childhood and the painful reality of being silenced after experiencing assault at just five years old. Raised between two contrasting cultures and faith backgrounds, Rebecca shares how confusion, fear, and denial shaped her early understanding of safety and truth.
Rebecca recounts the moment that shattered her sense of security, the generational silence that followed, an...
Bretta shares her journey of growing up in a family marked by instability, mental illness, and abuse. Raised by a mother with undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and a father with a history of violence, Bretta’s childhood was filled with uncertainty, emotional neglect, and moments of deep fear. From walking on eggshells at home to being pressured by her father to live with him as a teen, she carried the heavy weight of dysf...
Ellie opens up about a part of her past she has rarely spoken aloud: the betrayal, bullying, and violence she endured at the hands of a high school friend in Bulgaria. What began as a seemingly innocent friendship turned into years of harassment, culminating in a brutal attack that left Ellie scarred emotionally long after the physical pain faded.
After moving to the United States in her early 20s, Ellie built a new life. Becoming ...
Join us today as Jessica shares her incredible journey of survival, faith, and rediscovery. From enduring abuse and neglect in childhood, to navigating betrayal and brokenness in her first marriage, Jessica’s path has been marked by pain but also by resilience. Her years of ministry work in Thailand shaped her perspective on faith, culture, and perseverance. Even as she faced isolation, spiritual abuse, and the heavy responsibility...
Join us today as Peggy shares her remarkable story of resilience, faith, and transformation. From losing her father at just six years old and navigating the challenges of growing up with an alcoholic mother, Peggy carried wounds of abandonment, grief, and responsibility from a young age. Later, she endured a painful and abusive marriage before finding healing through counseling, faith, and intentional recovery programs.
Today, Pegg...
Susan’s journey is one of heartbreak, resilience, and redemption. From childhood sexual abuse and the trauma of rape to surviving domestic violence and emotional abuse, Susan has endured hardships that could have easily silenced her. Instead, she chose to rise.
Now approaching 60, Susan reflects on how her past shaped her strength and how faith, therapy, and community helped her heal. She opens up about the dangers of poverty, the ...
Kathleen returns to The Survivor’s Voice to share a powerful testimony of redemption, faith, and a marriage transformed by God’s mercy. What began as a whirlwind romance quickly descended into a cycle of substance abuse, unmet expectations, and violence. After years of dysfunction and a painful separation, Kathleen was ready to walk away for good—but God had a different plan.
Through divine encounters, faithful prayer, and years of...
When a drunk driver crossed the freeway and struck Debbie head-on at 140 mph, it changed her life in an instant. The accident should have killed her, but it didn’t. In this powerful episode, Debbie shares how surviving that crash led to a deep battle with fear, and how faith, hope, and baby steps brought her out of it.
Though she experienced short-term memory loss and intense post-traumatic stress, Debbie refused to let fear win. F...
Chelsea and Dustin share their powerful journey of grief, love, and faith as they recount losing five close family members in just three years. From the devastating loss of Chelsea’s father and brother to the sudden passing of both of Dustin’s parents in a tragic motorcycle accident, followed shortly by the death of Chelsea’s sister-in-law, their story is one of unimaginable sorrow met with unshakable strength.
Despite the heartbre...
In this rare and redemptive episode, Anna shares her powerful story of transformation, forgiveness, and faith. Raised in a blended family marked by violence, fear, and hidden generational abuse, Anna later discovered she had been sexually abused by the monsters she moved into her home. Some memories only accessible after her father’s death. Despite this pain, she chose to care for both her aging parents in her own home, even before...
In this powerful episode, Kenna bravely recounts the unimaginable. Her mother attempted to take her life when she was just 10 years old. From surviving that trauma to navigating foster care, complex family dynamics, and a faith tested by manipulation, Kenna shares how she found her voice and began healing. Now a wedding photographer, writer, and soon-to-be mother herself, she opens up about the generational pain she’s determined to...
Gabe is a husband, father, nonprofit leader, and senior behavioral health advisor. But his path to healing didn’t come easily. In this powerful episode, Gabe shares how a privileged childhood masked a growing storm within. One that eventually led to twelve years of alcoholism, seizures, hospital stays, and even to the brink of death.
He opens up about the intervention that saved his life, the treatment center that wasn’t what it se...
Welcome to The Survivor’s Voice, where resilience meets hope.
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Bryce opens up about falling in love with Janet—an adventurous photojournalist who reawakened his faith—only to lose her in a tragic accident while she was pregnant with their child. From heartbreak and numbness to anger, redemption, and eventually healing, Bryce shares how that loss shaped his journey through fatherhood, mar...
Welcome to The Survivor’s Voice, where resilience meets hope.
In this emotional and inspiring episode, Kasia shares her journey from a childhood in communist Poland to becoming a faith-based life coach, music creator, and yoga instructor in the United States. Through sexual trauma, anorexia, and grief, Kasia struggled with shame, self-worth, and the silence of unhealed pain. Her turning point came in her 50s, as she began connectin...
Welcome to The Survivor’s Voice, where resilience meets hope.
In this harrowing and courageous episode, Samantha opens up about surviving generational abuse, systemic failure, and the lifelong impact of trauma. From childhood sexual abuse by her biological father and older brother to being disbelieved by the court system, Samantha shares how silence, guilt, and survival shaped her early years. Her story unfolds into a powerful jour...
Welcome to The Survivor’s Voice, where resilience meets hope.
In this powerful continuation, Paris returns to share what happened after foster care and how she endured and ultimately escaped a 15-year abusive marriage. From emotional and spiritual abuse to weaponized Scripture and severe isolation, Paris reveals the silent suffering many survivors face behind closed doors. She opens up about how fear, faith, and motherhood shaped h...
Welcome to The Survivor’s Voice, where resilience meets hope.
Your Host: Angie Sedore Our Guest: Paris Byrum
Trigger Warning This episode includes discussions of rape, childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, foster care trauma, and loss of a sibling. Listener discretion is advised. The views expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect those of the podcast.
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