About this episode

Amber Jackson shares her journey of overcoming childhood trauma and finding her voice.

⚠️ LISTENER DISCLAIMER: This episode touches on sensitive topics including childhood trauma, abuse, and domestic violence. If children are nearby, please listen privately. Episode Summary In this deeply moving episode of the Junk to Jewels Podcast, host Georgette Beck sits down with Amber Jackson — Fort Pierce native, author, and survivor — for a raw and redemptive conversation about what it means to carry pain quietly and finally let it speak. Amber is the author of The Fracture Years: Surviving Trauma, Losing Everything, and Discovering the Woman I Was Meant to Be — a memoir that takes readers straight into the silent fractures of a childhood marked by abuse, instability, and unmet needs for love and protection. Through honest, poetic storytelling, Amber invites us into moments most people never speak aloud, offering hope to every reader who has ever felt invisible, unworthy, or alone. Amber and Georgette explore the long shadow of childhood silence — what it means when the adults who should protect you do not — and how growing up feeling "unseen" can follow a person into adulthood, relationships, and the search for validation. Amber shares how her healing has unfolded slowly…

People in this episode

Host: Georgette Beck

Guest: Amber Jackson

Topics covered

• childhood trauma
• abuse
• domestic violence
• healing
• self-discovery
• validation

Keywords

• trauma
• silence
• healing
• memoir
• childhood
• validation
• strength

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Fracture Years: Surviving Trauma, Losing Everything, and Discovering the Woman I Was Meant to Be

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