🎙️ Episode 2: Scars, Substances & the Chaos After the Cleanse — Featuring Faunae Newman & Amanda Cantrell
This episode dives deep into the layered realities of recovery with two powerful voices from the community—each bringing lived experience, professional insight, and a fierce commitment to helping others heal.
🧠 In our segment “Scars and Substances,” we welcome Faunae Newman, a substance abuse counselor at Brightview Treatment Center. Faunae isn’t in recovery herself, but her dedication runs deep—so deep that she’s attended meetings just to better understand the daily fight that people in recovery face. Her empathy is matched by her expertise, and she breaks down how trauma and addiction are often intertwined. Faunae shares practical ways to navigate trauma in recovery, offering education, compassion, and a perspective that bridges clinical knowledge with heartfelt connection.
🌪️ Then in “The Chaos After the Cleanse,” we bring back Amanda Cantrell, whose journey through recovery has been anything but linear. Amanda has graduated multiple treatment centers, gaining the tools she needed—but struggled to apply them until she entered the Grant County SAP program. There, she found the time, space, and support to truly transform. Eventually, Amanda stepped into the role of Peer Mentor, guiding others through the same doors she once walked through. In this segment, she opens up about the emotional aftermath of abstinence—the real-life chaos that can follow when the substances are gone but the challenges remain. Her story is raw, relatable, and full of hard-earned wisdom.
✨ Together, Faunae and Amanda explore what it means to show up—for yourself and for others. They speak on trauma, tools, setbacks, and the strength it takes to keep going when the world doesn’t slow down for your healing. This episode is for anyone who’s ever wondered what comes after the cleanse—and how to face it with courage, community, and clarity.

Trigger warning: This episode contains candid discussions of addiction, trauma, and recovery.