On this episode of Crash and Burn, Crash recounts a harrowing chapter of her life: being locked in a basement while her children were taken and vanished for weeks. She shares the fear, the desperate attempts to escape, and the eventual rescue that reunited her family.

Candid and resilient, Crash also covers the legal aftermath, the emotional recovery for her children, and how she turned trauma into strength—finding independence, training as a private investigator, and prioritizing healing and her kids' futures.

Crash returns with a solo episode explaining her absence, speaking openly about living with multiple sclerosis (whimsically named "Henry"), family and health challenges, and recent awards. She also announces changes to live recordings on Podbean and reassures listeners the podcast will continue.

Through personal stories of survival, domestic abuse, and resilience, Crash urges kindness over criticism, encourages mental health support (including calling 988), and signs off with humor, positivity, and a call for community and self-care.

Crash and Burn explores why teen anxiety is exploding—from relentless social media and constant performance pressure to how anxiety often shows up quietly (stomachaches, exhaustion, avoidance).

Crash offers practical, bite-sized tools for teens (shrink the day, name it, pick one safe person, basic self-care) and clear guidance for parents (validate, ask curious questions, avoid minimizing), plus a simple 24-hour challenge to start rebuilding calm.

If things feel overwhelming, seek professional help—small acts like getting out of bed or asking for support truly count.

Whether you are someone who is experienced trauma or anxiety, or you know someone that has you realize that it isn’t as easy as washing your hands. It takes hard work. You need to have patience. You need to experience laughter. You need to be able to forgive yourself for allowing yourself to live through that and forgive the person that caused you the harm I’m not asking you to take them out for a steak dinner. I’m saying write a letter be harsh. Say what you gotta say and then burn it. Release the anger, the anxiety I hate whatever you’re feeling whatever the emotions are release it and know that you’re OK. You don’t have to be OK. It’s OK to say I need help. I wanna talk and we’re here to help you do that

Crash, Dixie Eric and Brian we’re all here having some great laughs talking about trauma and how ignoring it will only make you more stressed out and leave you with more questions. We talked about the woman that was on the Old Man show who had left her Amish family and what that means when you leave the encampments it was a great conversation. We also talked about the new series for reality. It’s About the Amish community trying to bring in English people to convert to Amish so that they can keep their community rebuilding lots of laughs and it was OK to not be OK cause I had my friends there