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The Shadow Sessions

The Shadow Sessions

Di: Hiba Balfaqih
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 The Shadow Sessions is hosted by Hiba Balfaqih, an unconventional psychologist and trauma alchemist. We explore the stories that most people bury—particularly those tied to shame, trauma, and identity. Our goal is to shed light on the hidden corners of human experience, allowing listeners to hear stories that challenge societal norms and spark deep,introspective conversations.Hiba Balfaqih Crimini reali Igiene e vita sana Psicologia Psicologia e salute mentale Scienze sociali
Episodi
  • A Childhood Without Safety: Growing Up Inside the Prison System

    A Childhood Without Safety: Growing Up Inside the Prison System
    Jan 15 2026
    What happens when a child grows up without safety—and the system responds with punishment instead of protection? In this episode of The Shadow Sessions, host Hiba Balfaqih sits down with Sonny Van Cleaveland, whose life was shaped by incarceration before it was shaped by care. By the age of seven, Sonny was already inside the justice system. By sixteen, he was placed in an adult prison that became one of the most violent facilities in Michigan within its first month. This conversation exposes how early trauma, chronic threat, and institutional violence shape identity. Violence wasn’t defiance. It was adaptation. Survival became instinct. Harm became normalized. When a nervous system is raised in danger, morality doesn’t disappear—it gets overridden. But this episode is not just about prison. It’s about childhood trauma, moral injury, and how systems that claim to rehabilitate often reinforce the very behaviors they punish. It’s about how patterns form under pressure—and what it actually takes to interrupt them. Sonny’s story challenges the idea that people are “born dangerous.” It asks harder questions about responsibility, conditioning, and what healing looks like when no one ever modeled safety to begin with. This is an episode for anyone interested in trauma psychology, incarceration, nervous system survival responses, and the long-term impact of growing up without protection.
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    1 ora e 7 min
  • The Secret She Carried for Decades: Her Father Was the Father of Her Children

    The Secret She Carried for Decades: Her Father Was the Father of Her Children
    Jan 8 2026
    We teach kids to avoid strangers. To trust their gut. To believe home means safety. But what if home was the danger? In this first episode of The Shadow Sessions, host Hiba Balfaqih sits down with Aziza Kibibi — a survivor whose story of incest, betrayal, and survival shatters the illusion of safety. Aziza was abused by her father, forced to carry and raise his children, and silenced by those meant to protect her. Today, she is a whistleblower, author, and advocate fighting to expose the systems that failed her and to change the laws that still protect abusers. This conversation is not just about what happened — it’s about the courage it takes to speak, to heal, and to turn survival into advocacy.
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    1 ora e 24 min
  • We All Have Something We Are Hiding

    We All Have Something We Are Hiding
    Dec 18 2025
    The Shadow Sessions is a podcast for the stories we hide, the ones too painful, too early, or too private to ever make it to therapy. Hosted by psychologist and trauma alchemist Hiba Balfaqih, each episode sits with the truths people were never given permission to speak. From survivors of abuse to those confronting their deepest shadows, these are raw, unfiltered conversations about what we carry and what it costs us. Launching January 8 on all platforms, The Shadow Sessions is a space for anyone who’s ever felt unseen, unheard, or unsafe to tell their story. Because there is light in the shadow, if someone is willing to sit there with you.
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    2 min
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