232 - Healing Together: A Couple's Journey Through Repressed Trauma w/ Tarah & EJ Kerwin
About this episode
Tarah and EJ Kerwin discuss their personal and professional experiences with healing repressed trauma in relationships.
What your partner does when you fall apart is what your relationship was actually built on. Tarah and EJ Kerwin are licensed therapists, co-founders of Relationship Renovation Counseling in Tucson, and hosts of the Relationship Renovation podcast who teach what they’ve lived inside their own marriage. They met as colleagues at a treatment center, got married, had twins on their honeymoon, and spent the early years of a blended family forced to do the work they'd spent their careers teaching. But the real test came years later, when Tarah's repressed childhood trauma surfaced and they had to figure out what healing trauma in a relationship actually looks like in real time. This is a conversation about what it means to be truly supported by your partner through your darkest moments. ✨ What this episode explores ▪️ Avoidance Disguised as Calm — Why the partner who seems unflappable is often more emotionally walled off than the one openly struggling. ▪️ What Real Support in a Relationship Actually Looks Like — Why healing trauma in a relationship depends less on what your partner says and more on whether they've done their own work. ▪️ The Body Remembers Before the Mind Does — Why…
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