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I Lost My Innocence At 12. I Found My Freedom Years Later. | Anna Janssen | Her Side of the Stories

1 h 5 min · 28 de abr de 2026
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Anna Janssen was twelve when something happened that shaped the way she would love, grieve, mother, and trust for the rest of her life. Decades later, she found her own daughter on the other side of the same nightmare — and became the only person who could meet her there. In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, she sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about silence, the love she lost in a single phone call, and the woman she became on the other side of all of it: a healer, a mother, a power woman who is finally soft.   This isn't a story about what happened, it's a story about what stays.   What it does to the way you love. The way you grieve. The way you mother. The way you finally, after everything, learn what forgiveness actually means — and who it was always for.   Anna speaks about losing the man she loved in a single phone call. About anger. About the years she spent avoiding pain by avoiding everything. About the moment she became the only person her daughter could turn to — and what she said.   About finding herself again on the other side of all of it.   This is one of the most honest conversations we've had on Her Side.   If you've ever survived something you weren't ready for, kept something to yourself for too long, or wondered whether the past will ever stop sitting in your body — this is for you.   — — —   CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome 02:01 Three years after the war 03:38 A happy childhood 06:45 At 12, something happened 09:28 The strength that came out of her 11:54 Telling her mother 12:45 "Don't tell your father" 15:02 What it did to intimacy — until today 15:22 Forgiveness is for yourself 15:40 The pattern survivors don't talk about 17:16 The smell that stayed 20:43 Anger and forgiveness 22:46 Seeing him again at 23 26:43 Blaming herself 28:13 The school years 30:27 The confusion no one names 33:18 The anger her son could see 37:27 Texas 38:50 Falling in love in America 39:38 The day he didn't come 42:14 The funeral she ran from 43:18 Italy 47:56 Meeting the father of her children 51:18 Her second great love 54:48 Living on a boat 57:24 The Sunday afternoon 59:41 Walking back onto the boat 61:50 What her daughter did 65:07 The silent retreat 66:33 A year of teaspoons 67:12 The letter 69:10 Becoming a power woman 70:34 Her trauma vs her daughter's 72:13 "The trauma stays. But you can change it." 73:12 Becoming a healer 78:45 How to actually forgive 80:20 Walk in the water and forgive 81:33 What she'd say to them now 82:25 Her advice 84:36 Becoming softer   — — —   Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series exploring the inner lives of women — what they've survived, what they've become, and what they've never said out loud until now.   Hosted by Asal Zara. Filmed in Ibiza, Spain.   Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.   New episodes every Tuesday, 3PM CET.   If this episode meant something to you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with the woman who needs it. And subscribing (it's free) is how we keep telling these stories.   — — —   FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.com   FOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766   — — —   #hersideofthestories #asalzara #annajanssen #childhoodtrauma #traumahealing #grief #forgiveness #motherdaughter #womensstories #realstories #survivorstory #generationaltrauma #healingjourney #losingapartner #emotionalhealing

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episode Liv Nervo: I Thought I Found Safety. I Didn't Know I Was Living a Lie | Her Side of the Stories artwork

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Millions know Liv Nervo as one half of the Grammy Award-winning DJ and songwriting duo NERVO. Few know that while she was six months pregnant, she discovered the man she thought she was building a family with already had another family. This conversation isn't about fame. It's about betrayal, identity, resilience, and learning to trust yourself again. Liv Nervo is one half of the Grammy Award-winning Australian DJ, producer and songwriting duo NERVO, which she formed with her twin sister Mim. Before becoming one of the world's most recognised female DJ duos, NERVO wrote and produced music for artists including David Guetta, Kelly Rowland, Kylie Minogue, Kesha, The Pussycat Dolls, Steve Aoki, Afrojack and Miley Cyrus. In this deeply honest conversation, Liv shares what happened after her world fell apart. She opens up about betrayal, depression, motherhood, healing and the impossible task of rebuilding her life while becoming a mother for the first time. Together, we explore why so many of us mistake familiarity for safety, how easy it is to ignore our intuition when we desperately want something to be true, and what it really takes to find yourself again after everything you believed had fallen apart. — FOLLOW LIV NERVO Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nervomusic/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/nervomusic/?hl=en] FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial [https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories [https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories] Website: www.hersideofthestories.com [http://www.hersideofthestories.com/] FOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara [https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara]__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766] Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side. 🧡

30 de jun de 20261 h 14 min
episode I Thought I Had Healed. Then Life Tested Everything I Believed | Lauren Burton | Her Side Of The Stories artwork

I Thought I Had Healed. Then Life Tested Everything I Believed | Lauren Burton | Her Side Of The Stories

Some of the roles we carry through life started so early that we don’t even question them anymore. We just think, this is who I am. I’m the calm one, the strong one, the one who keeps everything together. But sometimes that isn’t really who we are. It is who we learned to become. In this episode, I sit with Lauren Burton, an internationally accredited executive coach, business owner and mother, to talk about the patterns that begin in childhood and quietly follow us into adult life. We speak about people-pleasing, abandonment, numbing, overworking, the need to feel seen, and what happens when life tests everything you thought you understood about healing. Lauren also speaks about losing her daughter Jasmine during childbirth, and the long process of learning how love, grief and joy can all exist at the same time. This is a conversation about survival, identity and finding your way back to yourself.

23 de jun de 20261 h 16 min
episode I Learned To Read The Unseen | But I Still Struggled To Be Seen | Psychic Elaine Mary Collins | Her Side of the Stories artwork

I Learned To Read The Unseen | But I Still Struggled To Be Seen | Psychic Elaine Mary Collins | Her Side of the Stories

She could sense what others couldn’t and help thousands of people find answers. But behind the psychic gift was a woman who spent years hiding and struggling to see her own worth. In this episode, Asal sits with Elaine Mary Collins — an intuitive reader who began psychic development at fourteen and received her first tarot deck from her mother at fifteen. Elaine opens up about growing up around addiction, violence and instability, and how those early experiences shaped both her sensitivity and the protective patterns she carried into adulthood. They explore intuition, tarot, mediumship, spiritualism, self-worth, people-pleasing, emotional eating, boundaries and the responsibility that comes with guiding people when they are vulnerable. Elaine also explains what she senses during a reading, whether psychics are ever wrong, why some people want comfort more than truth and whether everyone has the ability to develop their intuition. At the end of the conversation, Asal experiences her first taste of a tarot reading — opening an unexpectedly personal conversation about adventure, betrayal, abandonment and the things we think we have already healed. Elaine Mary Collins is one of the world’s most trusted psychics, with clients ranging from celebrities and CEOs to politicians. For nearly 50 years, people have turned to her for guidance, clarity and insight. Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

16 de jun de 20261 h 9 min
episode Between Family Expectations, Identity & Freedom Freedom | Navine Kumari | Her Side of the Stories artwork

Between Family Expectations, Identity & Freedom Freedom | Navine Kumari | Her Side of the Stories

What happens when you feel like you don't belong anywhere? In this episode, Navine Kumari shares what it was like growing up between two worlds, saying no to an arranged marriage, losing her father, being blamed by her community, and spending years searching for where she truly belonged. Born in the UK to Indian parents, Navine grew up balancing tradition, family expectations, identity, and freedom. She opens up about colourism, arranged marriage, grief, losing both parents, motherhood, and the emotional journey of supporting her son when he came out as gay at just 13 years old. This is a conversation about belonging, courage, acceptance, and what it means to choose your own path without losing your love for where you come from. Navine Kumari is an entrepreneur, mother, and founder of one of Ibiza's most successful catering companies. In this episode: • Growing up between two worlds • The caste system and arranged marriage • Feeling different and wanting to belong • Colourism and beauty standards • Saying no to the life planned for her • Losing her father and being blamed by her community • Grief, identity and finding herself • Motherhood and unconditional love • Her son's journey of coming out as gay at 13 • Supporting children through life's challenges • Losing her mother • Spirituality, death and letting go • What happiness means today If this conversation resonated with you, stay closer and subscribe to our channel 🧡 Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

9 de jun de 20261 h 4 min
episode The Things She Couldn't Remember Changed Her Entire Life | Katelyn Means | Her Side of the Stories artwork

The Things She Couldn't Remember Changed Her Entire Life | Katelyn Means | Her Side of the Stories

What happens when parts of your childhood disappear from memory, but continue shaping your life anyway? In this episode, Dr. Katelyn Means shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, shame, survival, healing, and recovery. As a child, Katelyn experienced things no child should have to navigate. What followed were years of trying to make sense of feelings she couldn't fully explain, relationships that repeated familiar pain, struggles with anorexia, medication, perfectionism, and the belief that something was fundamentally wrong with her. Together, we explore the relationship with her father, the memories she carries, the ones she doesn't, and the impact those experiences had on every chapter that followed. We talk about shame, about survival mode, about trying to control a body when life feels uncontrollable, about why we repeat patterns and about the long journey from simply surviving to finally feeling safe. One thing she said stayed with me long after the cameras stopped rolling: "The absence of memory doesn't mean the absence of experience." This is a conversation about trauma. But even more than that, it's a conversation about hope. Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side. ABOUT DR. KATELYN MEANS Dr. Katelyn Means is the creator of The Euphoria Effect, a framework exploring the connection between childhood experiences, trauma, healing, and human potential. FOLLOW DR KATELYN MEANSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_euphoria_effect/ FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.com

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