Early Trauma Steals Your Voice: How One Woman Took It Back

Send us Fan Mail Trauma doesn’t always show up as a single memory you can point to. Sometimes it shows up as a life that feels “off,” a voice that doesn’t sound like yours, reactions that feel bigger than the moment, and cycles you can’t explain no matter how hard you work on yourself. We sit down with Lease Youmans, author and trauma-informed speaker, to trace how childhood sexual abuse at 12 quietly shaped decades of decisions, coping, and identity, even while she believed she was living au...