Episode 6: Healing After Trauma: Rebuilding Identity, Boundaries & Sexuality

Who are you after trauma?

When your life has been shaped by survival, coercion, or exploitation… reconnecting with your identity can feel overwhelming—and sometimes impossible.

In this episode of The Phoenix Project, Jennifer Chandler is joined by licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical sexologist, and AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor, Wendy Haggerty.

Together, they explore what it really means to rebuild your sense of self after trauma.

This conversation dives into:

• How trauma and exploitation impact identity
• Performance-based survival vs. authentic self
• Shame, grief, and disconnection
• Reclaiming your voice, boundaries, and body
• Healing your relationship with sexuality
• Learning to say no—and mean it
• Moving from survival into true self-connection

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from who you are… this episode will help put language to what you’ve been feeling—and remind you that you are not broken.

You are still there.

And you can come back to yourself.

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This is The Phoenix Project—where we are turning pain into purpose, one step at a time.

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