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In Episode 8 of SUITT & BOOT, host Tshai Wright speaks with Jessica Carisse, founder of Carisse Consulting and host of Connecting the Dots, about childhood trauma, the father wound, and how survival often shows up as success.

This episode explores:

• Conditional love and emotional absence
• High-functioning survival roles
• Parentification and emotional numbness
• Trauma responses mistaken for personality traits

Using the Scorphenegle Framework—Scorpion, Eagle, and Phoenix—we unpack how awareness leads to healing, and how nervous system safety is the foundation for real transformation.

The episode closes with a Scorphenegle Reflection, connecting trauma to meaning and offering language for those who have built successful lives but still don’t feel at home in themselves.

SUITT & BOOT is about standing up in truth, breaking out of trauma, and turning pain into purpose.

Want a deeper dive into the Scorphenegle (Scorpion → Eagle → Phoenix) framework featured in this episode?
You can explore the full framework in the book Scorphenegle, linked below.
https://a.co/d/7X4WsH8

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In this episode of SUITT & BOOT, Tshai shares her lived experience growing up inside a family system where trauma wasn’t a single event — it was a pattern.

This episode explores how children who grow up without emotional protection often become scapegoats, fixers, people pleasers, or are placed into multiple roles at once — praised for being “strong” while being blamed for everything that goes wrong.

Tshai breaks down:

• What it means to be the scapegoated child
• How children are placed into dual roles (scapegoat and golden child)
• Why fixers lose their identity in adulthood
• How wounded boys and wounded girls often find each other
• Why healing can feel disorienting and lonely
• How unhealed parents and in-law dynamics compound generational trauma

This is not about blaming parents, partners, or families.
This episode is about pattern recognition, nervous system survival, and breaking cycles that were never meant to be carried.

If you’ve ever felt like you were “too strong,” “too responsible,” or “the one who holds everyone together,” this episode is for you.

SUITT & BOOT is about Standing Up in Truth & Transformation — and breaking out of trauma, one pattern at a time.

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In this episode of SUITT & BOOT, Tshai speaks directly to the post-holiday emotional crash that so many people experience, especially those healing from family trauma, boundary violations, or unspoken relational tension.

This episode explores:

• Why your body can feel numb, exhausted, or flooded after family gatherings
• How emotional dishonesty and unspoken tension register in the nervous system
• What “delayed processing” really means (and why it’s not regression)
• Why nothing has to “happen” for your body to feel violated
• How family dynamics can spill into your romantic relationship
• Why integration is different from confrontation
• How journaling helps the body release what it’s been holding

This is not an episode about blame or confrontation.
It’s about listening to the body, honoring exhaustion, and giving your nervous system a place to land.

If the holidays left you feeling off — even though nothing “went wrong” — this episode is for you.

SUITT & BOOT
Standing Up in Truth & Transformation
Breaking Out of Trauma
From Scorpion → Eagle → Phoenix
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The holidays can be hard—especially when family dynamics are painful or triggering.

This short SUITT & BOOT bonus episode isn’t about fixing your family.
It’s about getting through the holidays with your nervous system intact.

If being around family makes you feel anxious, guilty, or exhausted, you’re not broken—your body remembers.

There’s no single right way to handle the holidays. Choosing peace, space, or boundaries is valid.

You don’t owe anyone access to you at the expense of your wellbeing.

✨ Every time you choose yourself with clarity and compassion, you break a chain.

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Episode 6 | From Prison to Power: Susan’s Transformation Story

In this episode of SUITT & BOOT, host Tshai Wright sits down with entrepreneur, cultural curator, and survivor Susan Smallwood, joined by resident therapist Jianny, LMHC, for a deeply honest conversation about identity, trauma, and reclaiming personal power.

Susan shares her lived experience — growing up in foster care, surviving childhood abuse, navigating military sexual harassment, experiencing homelessness, and serving time in prison after a life-altering mistake. This episode is not about addiction or sensationalism, but about how living out of alignment with one’s truth can fracture identity — and how choosing truth can transform everything.

Today, Susan has rebuilt her life through entrepreneurship, becoming the first woman of color to launch a caviar brand and producing Jazz & Polo events that reflect her authentic self. Her story challenges the idea that one moment defines a lifetime and offers a powerful reminder that healing is not linear — but it is possible.

In this episode, we explore:

• Childhood abuse, foster care, and trauma memory
• Suicide survival and breaking cycles of silence
• Trauma bonding, people-pleasing, and survival instincts
• Military sexual harassment and power dynamics
• Homelessness, incarceration, and identity rupture
• Masking pain through success and achievement
• Father wounds, mother wounds, and relational patterns
• Masculine and feminine energy in relationships
• Turning pain into purpose and rebuilding from nothing

Susan’s story is raw, nonlinear, and deeply human — a testament to what can happen when someone stands up in their truth and breaks out of trauma.

Listener discretion advised: This episode contains discussions of abuse, suicide attempts, and incarceration.

About SUITT & BOOT

SUITT & BOOT stands for Standing Up In Truth & Transformation and Breaking Out Of Trauma. This podcast creates space for real conversations about healing, identity, and reclaiming personal power.

Connect with Susan Smallwood

• Instagram / Facebook / LinkedIn: Susan Smallwood
• La Grande Caviar
• Grandiosity Events & Jazz & Polo

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EPISODE 5 — Generational Trauma & Breaking the Cycle

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In this powerful conversation, Tshai and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Jianny Adamo explore how generational trauma is passed through families, how silence creates repeating patterns, and how Jianny traced her wounds back to her maternal grandfather. Through Family Constellation therapy, she reveals how ancestral pain shaped her relationships—and how she finally broke the cycle.

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In this powerful episode of SUITT & BOOT, licensed mental health counselor Gianny Adamo returns to break down two of the most defining forces in our emotional lives: the mother wound and the father wound.

Together, we explore how these wounds shape:
• The partners we choose
• The way we love
• How we communicate
• How much we tolerate
• How we show up in relationships
• And how we see ourselves

We unpack the deeper layers of:
✨ Attachment and emotional safety
✨ Self-worth, identity, and boundaries
✨ Trust, protection, and masculine energy
✨ Why “survival love” keeps us stuck
✨ How to finally break generational cycles

And for the first time, I share a raw, personal monologue about my own mother wound, my father wound, my marriage, abandonment patterns, and how Thanksgiving forced me to set a boundary that changed everything.

If you’ve ever been the strong one, the fixer, the peacemaker…
If you’ve ever carried your family’s pain…
If you’ve ever chosen partners from your wounds instead of your healing…
This episode will speak directly to your soul.

You are not broken. You were trained. And you can be retrained.

New episodes drop every Sunday.
Suit up. Boot up. Let’s break out of trauma together.

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Episode 3 — How Unhealed Trauma Shows Up in Love, Family & Identity (with Jianny Adamo, LMHC)

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From betrayal trauma to abandonment wounds, Episode 3 of SUITT & BOOT goes deeper into the hidden ways childhood pain shows up in adulthood — especially in love, boundaries, relationships, and the family system.

Licensed Mental Health Counselor Jianny Adamo returns to break down the psychological patterns that keep us stuck, silenced, and repeating cycles we don’t even realize we inherited.

Together, Tshai and Jianny explore:

• What betrayal trauma really is and why it hits so deeply
• How family systems shape our identity, self-worth, and relationship choices
• Generational silence and how families bury abuse, secrets, and pain
• How the body stores trauma — migraines, anxiety, chronic stress
• Why we keep dating the same wounded partners
• Gaslighting and emotional manipulation
• Boundaries vs. walls: knowing the difference
• The “inner child freeze” response — feeling stuck, small, or overwhelmed
• Identity loss after years of caretaking, fixing, or people-pleasing
• How to start reclaiming your voice, your truth, and your right to love
• Why healing sometimes feels like you’re “going backwards”
• How to break betrayal trauma patterns for good

This episode is raw, relatable, and liberating.
If you’ve ever felt silenced, unseen, or stuck in unhealthy cycles, Episode 3 speaks directly to your spirit.

✨ Whether you grew up in chaos, survived heartbreak, or lost yourself in relationships — this conversation helps you start breaking the chains.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• From Love Trauma to Fearless Love by Jianny Adamo
• Free 15-minute consultation at: FearlessLove.net

“My 30-day guided SUITT & BOOT healing journal is LIVE! Order here:” https://a.co/d/fDCUrBz

💛 Keep Rising, Chainbreakers

Watch Episode 1 to learn Tshai’s betrayal trauma story.
Watch Episode 2 to hear Darlee’s abandonment & foster care truth.
Then dive into Episode 3 to understand how trauma shapes love — and how to reclaim yourself.

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