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What if your success isn’t proof that you’ve healed—but the place you’ve learned to hide?

You can be resilient, accomplished, educated, and committed to helping others while still carrying wounds that have never fully healed.

In this deeply honest episode of Good Talk with Tiffany Santana, I sit down with Myhosi “Josie” Ashton, a licensed mental health counselor, trauma therapist, survivor advocate, founder of the international Brides March movement, and author of Healing His Bride.

Josie shares how she spent years achieving, serving, advocating, and building an impressive life—while privately struggling to feel whole or worthy. She explains why resilience and healing are not the same and how unresolved pain can quietly affect our relationships, parenting, leadership, physical health, and sense of identity.

Josie also opens up about surviving childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence, confronting the ways her wounds followed her into adulthood, and finally accepting that she needed more than achievement, ministry, activism, or determination to heal.

This conversation is for anyone who has become highly skilled at functioning while hurting.

ABOUT JOSIE ASHTON

Myhosi “Josie” Ashton is a licensed mental health counselor, trauma therapist, author, survivor advocate, coach, consultant, and speaker with more than 30 years of experience in mental health counseling and criminal justice settings.

She is the founder of the Brides March movement, created to honor Gladys Ricart and raise awareness about domestic violence. Josie is also the author of Healing His Bride, a vulnerable memoir about trauma, advocacy, faith, identity, and the journey from surviving to healing.

CONNECT WITH JOSIE

Website:

https://josieashton.com

Purchase Healing His Bride:

https://a.co/d/0fhojt0o

Learn more about the Brides March movement:

https://bridesmarch.com

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CONTENT NOTE AND SUPPORT

This episode includes conversations about childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, trauma, mental health, and suicidal behavior. Please listen with care and seek qualified support when needed.

For confidential domestic violence support in the United States:

Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Text START to 88788

Visit https://thehotline.org

For emotional distress or a mental health crisis, call or text 988.