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The Fractures That Made Me: Amber Jackson on Trauma, Silence, and Finding Whole
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- May 11, 2026
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- 3666
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Summary
⚠️ 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 and imperfectly, and how her husband Justin became not just a life partner but her greatest hero. This is a conversation about fractures. About the stories we carry for years before we finally write them down. And about the truth that your trauma does not define you — it gives you strength to persevere. What You'll Hear in This Episode Growing up on a small farm in Fort Pierce, FL — and the childhood wounds hidden behind barefoot summers The earliest signs of trauma that went unnoticed and unnamed What it felt like to finally speak up — and be met with silence Living with unspoken shame and how…