Update: A Sneak Peek of Family Secrets Season 4

Ruthie Lindsey knows first-hand just how much pain might be hiding behind someone’s picture-perfect social media presence. Hear the rest of her story on the Season 4 premiere of Family Secrets, next Thursday, October 1.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Danny Shapiro, and this is a special sneak peek of
our first episode of the new season of Family Secrets,
whose drops a week from today on Thursday, October one.

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I can't wait to share the whole season with you.
You know, in terms of Family Secrets, there really are
two that I want to talk to you about. And
one is that during some of this period of time,

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you had fixed up your house and you had this
incredible knack with design, and some photographs were taken and
you made everything really gorgeous and like this beautiful interior,
and you became this Instagram darling, suddenly having this world
of people seeing your beautiful life, everything perfect. And I

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think that that's such an important thing for people to
hear and to think about, because so much of social media,
Instagram in particular, is about comparing our insides with other
people's outside or what we think other people's outsides are.
So when was the moment that you sat down and

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opened your Instagram account and posted the truth and just
like shared it in all of its complexity with the
people who were following you. I actually didn't start my
Instagram account until after I'd wean myself off all the drugs.
It took me about four months to get off all

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of the narcotics, and I had my brother was like,
you can lay in your bed and hurt, or you
can get up and be with people and try to
love people and people and lived life and hurt. I
was like, okay, so much trying to live in her,
you know. And once that happened, and you know, my
marriage did end, and I was like, if I get
back in that bed, I will die. I will die.

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So Instagram it became a part of my life joy journal.
What ended up happening is I wasn't giving people the
full context. I was only giving them the beauty, the joy,
the goodness. I did not give them the context of
my joy. And after about eight or nine months of
doing that, I had people that didn't know me following

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along on social media, and I started getting these messages
of like, oh my gosh, I want your life, what
a dream life? If this is so beautiful, I wish
that was my dining room. I was, you know, all
these crazy messages and it made me nauseous because I'm
like I remember looking on social media and just I
would have paid so much money to have been able

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to be outside playing with the children that I was
dreaming of having instead of just laying in my bed
hurting all the time, and out doing these adventures, you know.
And the idea that I could conjure up those feelings
and someone else withoutcome getting the full picture made me
so sad. Listen to the new season of Family Secrets,

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premiering October one, on Apple podcasts, the I heart Radio app,
or wherever you get your podcasts. For more podcasts for
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podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.