BUY THE BOOK! "The Tell: A Memoir” by Amy Griffin, is published by The Dial Press and available wherever books are sold. Link to buy "The Tell" on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-tell/id6504264689 Link to listen to "The Tell" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2P6CmdJvuI1KKenB0hsL4s?si=004e2885bcc14199 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Oprah In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club Presented by Starbucks, Oprah sits down with Amy Griffin, founder of the investment firm G9 Ventures, to discuss her powerful new memoir, The Tell. This groundbreaking and deeply moving book chronicles Amy’s journey of confronting her painful past to embrace the truth of who she is today. In a heartfelt and vulnerable conversation, Amy reflects on how facing her deepest trauma has freed her from chasing perfection and achievement for validation, allowing her to find peace within herself. Amy details the moment she awakened to the buried memories of her past—a revelation that ultimately set her on a path to healing. Amy takes questions from the audience as she shares how the telling of her story has deepened her connection with herself and those around her. For this conversation, Amy and Oprah are joined by a live audience enjoying the seasonal Starbucks ® Anniversary Blend coffee in a Starbucks café in Chicago, Illinois. This conversation is not intended to offer medical advice. Psychedelics remain illegal in most states, consult your own healthcare professional before considering any kind of mental health treatment. Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: Instagram Facebook TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Well, that's how most of us learned what PTSD was. So I remember when I opened my school in South Africa and, you know, the girls were going through all this, what I thought was like, what is happening? Dr. Bruce Perry said to me, I think your girls are suffering from PTSD. And I said the same thing. Well, they haven't been to war. And he goes, poverty is war. Trauma is war.
And so that's the first time I realized it around 2006, 2007. Yeah.
Well, I think that's one of the things I've really come to realize, too, even in the writing of this, that trauma is not just what happened to me, but there are parts of us. in all of us that are broken, that we go in, if we can go in and just tell them and acknowledge them.
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Welcome back to Oprah's Book Club presented by Starbucks. I'm so glad you're here with us. I'm with author and investor Amy Griffin, whose book The Tell is my 112th selection. Amy is talking about her use of psychedelic therapy and how it helped her uncover a traumatic experience from her childhood.
A reminder, this conversation contains discussions about sexual abuse and may be challenging to hear. This is not a subject for young children. Since we'll be discussing psychedelics, I want you to also know this conversation is not intended to offer any kind of medical advice.
Well, the reason why I think the tell is going to have such a profound effect on so many people is because when people live a life like you live, a very elevated, highly exposed to everything possible in the world life, growing up the way you did in Amarillo, riding around with your banana seat bicycle and going to the Tootin' Totem,
and having everything look and seem to be perfect, except you didn't win Homecoming Queen. I did not. It's hard to believe that traumatic things happen to you because people think when you have money that you can't have sadness or trauma or difficulties or challenges. So what happened during your first session with the therapist? And what psychedelic did you use?
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