Brad SchipkeFounder of Broken To Unbreakable

INSPIRING Healing Childhood Trauma, Rape, and Addiction

5 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal testimonial, a speaker in their late fifties recounts a lifelong history of childhood trauma, sexual assault, and subsequent drug and alcohol addiction. They describe being in treatment since age 19, receiving bleak prognoses from professionals who claimed their PTSD was too complex to treat and that they would only worsen. After a period of desperation and prayer, the speaker discovers a clinician named Kayleen through a social‑media newsfeed. Kayleen promotes clinically sound modalities and assures the speaker that recovery is possible. The speaker credits this encounter with a turning point: they now sleep without nightmares, are challenging entrenched harmful beliefs, and are tapering off psychiatric medications. The narrative emphasizes that recovery is possible at any age, regardless of trauma severity, and ends with an uplifting message of hope for the speaker’s remaining years.

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I had childhood trauma that rolled into drug and alcohol addiction. I'm almost 60. I've been in treatment since I was 19 years old. I was told by professionals that my PTSD was too complicated for them to treat, that I was only going to get worse. I was never going to get better. I was down on my knees, and I was begging God for help. The next morning, Kayleen was in my newsfeed. She was talking about clinically sound modalities, and she said I was going to get better. I just, I still stumble over that because it was just stunning to me that people recover from PTSD. I didn't know that that was possible. Fast forward, I sleep without nightmares. I'm crashing through beliefs that kept me sick for years. And the best part about it is that I'm starting to get off my psychiatric medications. That blows my mind. You're never too old to get better. Your trauma's not too big. You can get better. I'm heading into the last stretch of my life. I'm just looking forward to it. It's looking up. You're worth it. You can get better.