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Episodes

Total: 256

238: What if you were tortured in an Iranian prison?
2022/6/7
5 chapters Transcript

“You were in this abyss of darkness and the hardest part was not knowing…not knowing at all if you’r

237: What if your mom hoarded 90 cats?
2022/5/31
8 chapters Transcript

“We had such a sense of safety and comfort and then…it was like everything changes and you can’t go

236: What if you had the worst roommate ever?
2022/5/24
6 chapters Transcript

“When there’s some trauma, you have a poison within you….If you leave it there it’s going to ferment

235: What if delusion consumed your family?
2022/5/17
10 chapters Transcript

“A family tree is not permanent…You’re allowed to trim some branches.”Today’s guest requested to rem

234: What if your joy came with a tragic price?
2022/5/10
2 chapters Transcript

“To feel like at any moment something tragic could happen put me in a deep, deep cloud as far as who

233: What if they invaded your home?
2022/5/3
7 chapters Transcript

“It honestly felt like my whole life had just gone from this amazing color filled motion picture to

232: What if you committed a hate crime?
2022/4/26
10 chapters Transcript

“The feeling of unknowing while you’re going through that is probably the strongest, most terrifying

231: What if they all betrayed you?
2022/4/19
1 chapters Transcript

“I was just terrified, just the not knowing what was happening or what was even going on in my own b

230: What if you discovered you were the enemy?
2022/4/12
8 chapters Transcript

“It’s just terror, it’s just fear with no object…It’s so purely guttural and instinctive it’s almost

229: What if your life unraveled thread by thread?
2022/4/5
9 chapters Transcript

“I felt like I went through a portal into this evil place…and I immediately knew that we were in a w

228: What if you grew up with the ghosts of war?
2022/3/29
1 chapters Transcript

“Because so much of my life when I’d seen things happening I’d been told that it wasn’t really happe

227: What if you faced a terrifying beast?
2022/3/22
7 chapters Transcript

“What it felt like was - I am absolutely here, but this is not happening to us…This is not happening

226: What if you had three different faces?
2022/3/15
3 chapters Transcript

“I would look in the mirror and my eyes wouldn’t focus because it was like my brain wasn’t registeri

225: What if you stared into the abyss?
2022/3/8
6 chapters Transcript

“People who are grieving a serious loss, and you’re staring into the abyss, they understand intimate

224: What if they stole your childhood?
2022/3/1
1 chapters Transcript

“I didn’t get a chance to know who I was or who I should have become, and I will never know that per

223: What if you were the dirty little secret?
2022/2/22
8 chapters Transcript

“Now I know that half of me it’s a lie where does that leave me who am I who is this person it’s lik

222: What if you were a stranger in your own home?
2022/2/15
7 chapters Transcript

“If life is so fragile, death can come to you anytime any day in any place.” Producers: Wh

221: What if you were addicted to each other?
2022/2/8
6 chapters Transcript

“All that stuff I went through, the abuse, the physical, verbal, everything was not rock bottom for

220: What if they died in your hands?
2022/2/1
9 chapters Transcript

“I just thought this is not happening, like how could this be happening? This isn’t supposed to happ

219: What if you bled to death?
2022/1/25
5 chapters Transcript

“It’s never given that you’re going to be here tomorrow or in the next hour. You’ve got to respect t