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52. What My Body Remembered: My Journey Through Repressed Childhood Sexual Trauma

Molly Rasanen

This episode is the most vulnerable thing I have ever recorded.

And while I know I am fully ready to offer the depths of this process back out into the world as medicine, my heart will always be tender to this topic. So please listen responsibly with respect and reverence for the delicate nature of this experience.

Two years ago, my body revealed a memory I had previously had no conscious access to — a repressed experience of childhood sexual trauma that came flooding back not through my mind, but through my body. It was visceral. Unshakable. And it changed everything.

What unfolded in the years that followed became the most sacred and painful unraveling I’ve ever walked through. A journey of remembering and reclaiming. Of shedding false identities, collapsing illusions, and slowly finding my way back home to a sense of safety within myself.

In this conversation with my dear friend Lauren, I share this part of my story for the first time. Not from a place of having it all figured out, but from the raw, tender, integrated space that only time, devotion, and grace can create. We talk about the confusion I once held between love, sex, and safety, the insatiable desire for external validation, the therapy and embodiment work that supported my return to wholeness, and the wild, unexplainable intelligence of our minds and bodies.

This is the most personal thing I’ve ever shared publicly — and to me, the most important.

Because this experience didn’t just shape me. It is now the very foundation of the work I do in the world. It’s the reason I hold healing with such reverence. It’s why I care so deeply about helping women come back to the truth of who they are — beneath the trauma, the conditioning, the fear, and the fragmentation.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt the ache of something unspoken…
For anyone who is walking through the shadows and wondering if light is still possible…
For anyone whose body holds a story that hasn’t yet found words.

It is an offering. A prayer. And a ceremonial completion for a part of my life’s process thats made me the woman, partner, healer, creator and space holder that I am today.

And I am so f’cking proud of her.

May it meet you exactly where you are, and remind you that healing is not just possible — it’s the miraculous reason we came here. The holy initiation that allows us to live fully embodied, sovereign, and liberated lives inside the gift of this body that God gave us.

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