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Brooke Ledbetter

Brooke Ledbetter

Author of "Closer Than A Brother: An Invitation to Cultivate Friendships That Last" and speaker on faith, friendship, and mental health; realtor and coffee professional based in Texas.

Jun 23, 2026

10:46
Talk to us about, so you, you start going to see this counselor and yeah, you're, she, now you've got a guide and how does it kind of start pulling you out? Like, are you just able to spot it? What tools is she giving you to, to kind of combat that?
11:05
Yeah.
11:07
At first, I think it was just having a place even to just say everything without the pressure of needing my friends to carry that burden for me.
11:17
There is something that you can unburden yourself with a counselor with a little less responsibility feeling of, well, now I'm trauma dumping on them and they're going to carry it because they love me.
11:28
Whereas a counselor, your trust is trained to do that and is a place where they... know what to do with everything you're giving them.
11:35
So it was a safe place to just be as chaotically messy as I needed to be at the time.
11:40
And then she's a believer.

10 MINS LATER

21:38
But anyway, will you kind of like set that moment? Absolutely.

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