Diamonds, Danger, and Denial: The Funny Thing About Minimizing Trauma

Big Time Adulting

Caitlin Murray

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture, Momlife, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Our storyteller today is one of our podcast listeners, Alex from Washington state! Alex shares the shocking and dramatic story of being held hostage by a customer while working at Tiffany's and Company. At the time, she minimized the event as a crazy and adventurous brush with danger. Soon after, she suffered from panic attacks and other mental health issues but never connected them to the hostage fiasco. A couple years later she was diagnosed with PTSD which popped the lid on having to confront other traumas from her past and why she was so susceptible to this event.

Join us as Alex walks us through her story in vivid detail. She also talks about the complicated relationship she has with her mother and the abusive she experienced in her first marriage. In anticipation of the birth of her first child, Alex reflects on the lesson she’d like to pass onto her baby girl- to trust her gut and tap into her body's innate wisdom even if it’s at the expense of other people’s comfort.

Join us for this entertaining, suspenseful, and thought-provoking conversation that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Alex’s snack of choice: Albanese Sour Gummy Bears

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0:00.0	And then I see the pistol.
0:04.3	I'm in danger.
0:06.6	I didn't belong to me anymore.
0:09.0	I, like, belonged to, like, this kind of, like, ghoulish creature that had decided that he was going to be super obsessive and weird about me and totally upend my whole life.
0:26.4	Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome back to the big time adulting podcast.
0:31.1	I am your host, Caitlin Murray. So we're trying out something new with the podcast.
0:35.8	We're moving away from like expert Q&A format that we've been typically doing and more into like a real life storytelling setting because I feel like there's enough advice out there. You know, I think that we are all over inundated by advice. And why not just like listen to a real story and have it provoke our thoughts
0:57.2	and our memories and just oh god who doesn't love to be fucking told a story right i do i just like
1:03.0	want to go to bed listening to stories anyway today i have one of my listeners of the podcast, Alex, who has submitted a crazy story to be here today.
1:16.9	She is due with her first baby in about three days.
1:22.6	Welcome.
1:23.2	Hi, Alex.
1:24.5	Hello.
1:25.3	Hello.
1:25.8	I'm super jazz to be here.
1:31.1	I'm going to let us just dive right into your crazy story, which is about being held hostage. So I was working for a super bougie jewelry retailer
1:41.7	known for their iconic little blue boxes and little white bows. I think we can
1:46.9	infer a bit there. And I had initially like grown up powdered milk for a right, like hand me
1:53.7	down clothes in a trailer. And this was like my first introduction to a big girl job in my early 20s. It was
2:02.6	bougie and luxurious and like this exposure to like wealth and opulence that I wasn't custom
2:09.3	to. And part of working at Tiffany and Company was you were always on the look for like your big fish.
2:18.3	Somebody that consistently spends an obscene amount of money with you.
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