Episode 92: Doug and Stacee Goetzinger (https://www.speakoutloud.me/) Part 1

This is the first in a series of three episodes with Doug and Stacee Goetzinger.  Don’t miss this incredibly raw, honest conversation with my high school classmate, Doug, and his wife, Stacee, about Stacee’s lifelong battle with mental illness. In this episode, Stacee shares about her childhood that was full of family dysfunction. Stacee talks about her disordered eating in college at Dallas Baptist University and how she worked so hard to have a “new life”.  Stacee and Doug met in college, and Doug takes about his lack of knowledge and the shame messages he received about mental illness from his family of origin.  As a young married couple, Stacee experienced a miscarriage after a serious car accident, followed by complications after surgery. This episode concludes with Stacee divulging a pivotal moment when she attempted suicide in 2004 that resulted in an in-patient hospital stay.