What do you do when you tell the truth — and the adults around you believe you, and still do nothing?

In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Amy Prieb— licensed marriage and family therapist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse — tells the stories of every time she tried to get help as a child and was silenced. Not because people didn't believe her. They did. But believing a child and protecting a child turned out to be two very different things.

Facilitated by Nikki Braaten, this conversation is honest, unflinching, and deeply informed by both lived experience and clinical understanding. Amy has done the work. She's not here to perform grief. She's here to name a system.

In this episode, she walks through four specific moments:

A boarding school disclosure at age 11, where her father minimized ongoing sexual abuse as "a few butt slaps" — and the adults accepted his version without question. A conversation at 15 with a trusted family friend who named mandatory reporting and then immediately steered her away from it, asking her instead to one day forgive her father at her wedding altar. A boyfriend at 16 who, upon hearing her disclosure, was overheard asking his friends how he could ever see her as a virgin now. And a CPS investigation that ended with a social worker slamming her notebook shut and citing the statute of limitations — while her abuser came home and began monitoring her every movement.

Each of these moments is connected to what is happening right now with the Jeffrey Epstein files — the largest release of child sexual abuse investigation documents in American history. Because the playbook is identical whether the abuser is a missionary father in Thailand or a billionaire in Manhattan. Minimize. Redirect. Invoke forgiveness. Cite jurisdiction. Protect the men.

Part 2 continues next week.

Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of childhood sexual abuse, institutional betrayal, religious coercion, purity culture, and the Epstein investigation. It does not contain graphic descriptions of abuse.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7: 1-800-656-4673 or rainn.org

The world outside can be a lot. Your relationship doesn't have to be.

When work is overwhelming, family is complicated, and the news feels like too much — a securely attached relationship can be one of the most powerful stabilizing forces in your life. Not because it solves the external chaos, but because it gives you somewhere solid to stand while you face it.

In this episode, Amy explores one of the most quietly powerful truths she sees in her therapy practice: that a healthy, secure relationship functions like armor. When you can look at your partner and know — you are there for me, we are in this together, I am not alone — the hard stuff outside becomes genuinely more manageable.

In this Yurtism, you'll explore:

• What secure attachment actually feels like in everyday relationship moments
• Why a stable partnership buffers stress from work, family, and the wider world
• How the simple reassurance of "we're in this together" changes everything
• You don't need a perfect life. You need one person in your corner.
• 5-10 minutes. One truth. Come sit in the yurt.

What happens when one woman looks around at all the fragmented, expensive, exhausting ways women are supposed to "fix" themselves — one course, one coach, one four-figure program at a time — and decides there's a better way?

Mari Wuellner built it. She's an entrepreneur and insurance sales professional navigating one of the most male-dominated industries around — and that experience of being in a room where the model wasn't designed for you? It turns out, it's excellent fuel for building something entirely new.

The Crew is a coaching collective unlike anything I've seen: six professional coaches covering relationship health, physical wellness, business, mindset, organization, and systems — all under one roof, for a monthly membership fee that is frankly almost suspicious in how accessible it is. And the community she's built around it? These are not women who are playing small or waiting for permission.

In this conversation, Mari and I talk about what real community looks like versus the watered-down version every brand is selling right now, why women keep falling through the gaps when they only fix one area of their lives at a time, how she built a culture of genuine trust and collaboration in a world that still low-key pits women against each other — and which coaching area women think they need least when they join, and which one ends up rocking their world the most. This one is about relationships, connection, and community. But it's really about what it looks and feels like when women stop trying to fit into systems that were never designed for them — and build better ones instead.

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