Thank You Heartbreak

At the innocent age of 3, Transformational Healer and Coach, Chelsea Quint, watched her older brother die of a traumatic head injury. Unfortunately, the trauma wouldn’t end there. Joining Chelsea, she opens up about being an incest survivor and how she quickly moved from shock to acceptance when her first abuser—her father—took his own life. Life is very fleeting, she realized, and not just in an existential way but, in the sense that, people do leave the world. Reflecting on what it was like to live through those experiences, Chelsea talks about the significance behind renaming herself, choosing who she wants to be—not as her parent's daughter or her husband's wife but—for herself, the reason her grief is abnormal, the conversation with her younger sister and the question “do you think it was just you?" that brought their shared abuse to light, how child abuse is not a crime of passion or an accident but systematic, and the isolating experience of being told, even in the spaces of healing like