Show Notes
In today's episode, we sit down with an inspiring alumna of Christian Centre Academy, all the way from New Zealand! Christi shares her experiences at Christian Centre Academy, reflecting on her formative years at the church and school, and how those experiences have profoundly influenced her career as a trauma counsellor.
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In this episode, Coy joins us to talk addiction, recovery, and the deeply inconvenient reality that staying sober actually requires effort every single day. No inspirational mountain-top guru nonsense, just a raw conversation about screwing up, climbing back out of it, and trying not to light your own life on fire again before breakfast. Trauma and addiction go hand in hand. It's one thing to survive a traumatic childhood. It's another thing entirely to survive adulthood when nobody hands you a manual for how to cope with the damage afterward. Resources: intherooms.com aasask.org alsaskrsc-na.org Provincial Wait List: 1-844-440-4494 St. Joseph's Addiction Recovery Centre Admissions Line: 1-306-421-5227
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