LeeAnn Kreischer - Rural Southern Generational Trauma

The wife of comedian Bert Kreischer shares about her relationship with her "party-animal" husband, and her tumultuous childhood split between a mentally-ill narcissistic mother, a lovesick broken father, and a grandfather with severe combat PTSD from being the one of the first soldiers to enter Nagasaki after the atomic bomb detonated. She describes how she faced her pain, changed her life and grew.

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