The Relationship Recovery Podcast · Tiffany Denny, Kierstyn Franklin

Relationship Trauma, Triggers & Triumph: An Interview with Frankie and Jess on Healing & Self-Discovery

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Kirsten says she is blind in one eye because of medical malpractice after a sinus surgery.

1. The Relationship Recovery Podcast episode focuses on relationship trauma, triggers, and the team’s hiatus. 2. Frankie and Jess host Tiffany and Kirsten, and Kirsten matters because she shares personal experience with one-eye blindness and medical malpractice. 3. The episode asks what changes when a trauma-focused practice pauses, steps back from social media, and refocuses on healing. 4. Kirsten describes sinus surgery at age 16 after strep, an ICU stay, and later learning that her optic nerve had been sliced. 5. The team says they had never taken a break in the history of The Relationship Recovery before this hiatus. 6. They link the break to burnout, sickness, a move, and feeling like they were becoming a “slave to the algorithm.” 7. They explain that their clients kept coming in and their podcasts were still being found during the pause. 8. Frankie and Jess say the business now includes a possible membership, one-on-one support, and a plan to accept about 10 more clients. 9. They describe moving away from constant influencer-style content toward being thought leaders in relationship change. 10. They say they focus less on narcissism itself and more on the person recovering from a toxic relationship. 11. They point to somatic trauma work, EMDR, parts work, and inner-child style work as part of their approach. 12. They say relationship patterns can come from childhood, early dating, or a single painful moment like not being picked for kickball. 13. They describe people-pleasing, overcompensating, and self-sabotage as common responses to earlier relational injuries. 14. Frankie and Jess say they are seeing more 20-something clients coping with sexual abuse, social-media pressure, and blurred dating expectations. 15. They mention one client being stalked across LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook after the relationship ended. 16. They also describe a client whose present relationship feels dangerous because past trauma makes triggers harder to distinguish from real threat. 17. The tone is conversational, fast-moving, and personal, with a lot of back-and-forth between guests and hosts. 18. The format mixes business update, personal disclosure, and clinical discussion in the same interview. 19. People interested in trauma recovery, relationship patterns, and EMDR would likely want this. 20. People wanting a light celebrity-style chat or a short advice-only segment may skip it.

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A steady conversation about trauma, triggers, and how relationship patterns change.

This episode treats relationship trauma as lived experience, not theory. The hosts begin by naming their hiatus, and that choice sets a plainspoken tone for talk about trauma, triggers, friendship, parent-child strain, adult children repeating patterns, and the work of placing…

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