Healing Our Ghosts shines light into the suffering we keep hidden. We are not alone in our struggles and when we share our pain, we lift the shame secrecy that keeps us alone and disconnected from each other and prevents us from healing. With humor and compassion, Ana Joanes interviews a wide variety of guests about their messy lives, how they hurt, survived and thrived and, more often than not, how they use their life's journey to contribute to the world. Ana believes the trauma-informed movement must be lead by those personally affected. She is the director of Wrestling Ghosts, a powerful and intimate documentary about childhood trauma and healing.
Norman grew up in a loving Jewish family in the midwest. His father was a veteran and although all seem well, Norman felt a disconnect, a deep-felt se...
Marlon was that nerdy little kid who loved to write and went door to door in his little suit to share church pamphlets. But even a protective family c...
When Robin’s father was 12, he hid in a closet while his family was gunned down in one of the first mass shooting in US history. 60 years later, Robin...
Elizabeth’s parents are both survivors of the Holocaust. Their trauma loomed large in her childhood. As an adult, Elizabeth learned about epigenetics ...
Meghan married young with her college sweetheart. The relationship seemed perfect on the outside, but behind closed doors, she was experiencing emotio...
Donna developed a serious auto-immune disease when she was a new mom. A simple viral infection left her hospitalized and paralyzed as her body turned ...
Andrew was bullied as a boy for being gay. As an adult, he suffered from severe depression. Andrew realized that to survive and thrive he must create ...
Jed’s father had a mental breakdown when Jed was only four. Jed visited him every Sunday at a psychiatric hospital where he witnessed his deterioratio...
Sebern, at age four, was abducted and abused. Her parents never believed her and by the time she was a young adult, she ended up in lengthy psychiatri...
Louise is a Harvey Weinstein Silence Breaker. Speaking out was fueled by her desire to share her insight on the link between childhood trauma and sexu...