The Last Generation with Donna Simmons

The Last Generation with Donna Simmons

Welcome to The Last Generation, the podcast where lived experience meets lasting change. Host Donna Simmons, author, survivor, and advocate dives deep into the stories we rarely tell but desperately need to hear. From surviving childhood trauma and breaking free from generational cycles of abuse, to reclaiming identity, purpose, and power, Donna brings raw truth and hard-won wisdom to each episode. With heartfelt solo reflections and meaningful conversations with change-makers, survivors, and advocates, this podcast explores what it really takes to heal from deep wounds, challenge broken systems, and create generational shifts. Whether you’ve lived through trauma, love someone who has, or work to create safer spaces for vulnerable youth, The Last Generation offers honest guidance, powerful stories, and a path toward hope and healing.

Episodes

Beyond Perfect: The Cost of Compliance & the Power of Connection EP 17

November 25, 2025 • 50 mins
What happens when “being loved” means disappearing a little more each year?In this deeply honest conversation, Donna Simmons sits down with Julie Easley, a lifelong social worker and survivor whose story reveals how easily care can turn into control — and how love rooted in dependency can quietly isolate us from ourselves.Together, they unpack the slow erosion of self that comes from performance-based love, the subtle ways religiou...
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When Justice is Only the Beginning EP 16

November 4, 2025 • 41 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. What happens after justice is served?For many survivors, the courtroom is not closure — it’s the opening of an entirely new chapter.In this powerful conversation, Laquisha Moore, CEO and Founder of LEVITATE, shares her journey from surviving childhood abuse to prosecuting her offenders — and how that fight for justice led her to become a trauma-focused Licensed Clinical Counselor and a...
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Roots & Rituals: Remembering What Oppression Tried to Erase EP 15

October 28, 2025 • 26 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. For centuries, women, healers, and earth-centered practitioners were branded as dangerous—punished not for wickedness, but for wisdom. The witch trials may seem like ancient history, yet their shadow lingers in today’s culture of control, where fear and shame are still weaponized to silence truth and autonomy.In this episode, we journey from the ashes of persecution to the embers of r...
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From Survival Mode to Safety: Mental Health Lessons for the Next Generation EP 14

October 21, 2025 • 25 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. So much of our healing journey is shaped by how early trauma rewires the brain—and how those survival patterns follow us into adulthood. In this episode of The Last Generation: Transforming Trauma Into Purpose, Donna Simmons takes a bold look at the intersection of mental health, Complex PTSD, and attachment theory, breaking down how anxiety, depression, hyper-independence, and panic ...
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Her Body, Their Rules: The Silent Erosion of Women’s Freedom EP 13

October 14, 2025 • 50 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. Across generations, women have fought for autonomy over their bodies, voices, and choices — yet today, that hard-won freedom is being quietly dismantled. In this episode, Donna Simmons sits down with global speaker and veteran, Angela Brokman to unpack how systemic control has shifted from overt restriction to covert erosion — through policies, cultural double standards, and even the ...
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Elevating Women: Leadership, Healing, and the Fight for Safety EP 12

October 7, 2025 • 39 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. In this episode of The Last Generation, Donna sits down with Elizabeth Martin — President and Chief Empowerment Officer of The Center for Women and Families — for an intimate and powerful conversation about what it really takes to protect, heal, and uplift women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence. Together, they explore the realities faced by survivors across Kentu...
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When Officials Look Away - The Village Must R.I.S.E. EP 11

September 30, 2025 • 15 mins
Some truths don’t disappear—they’re buried. Buried under red tape, hidden behind bureaucracy, and silenced by those in power. In this episode of The Last Generation, host Donna Simmons—survivor of child marriage—uncovers shocking evidence that at least fifteen Kentucky counties have violated the state’s 2018 child marriage law.Through investigative digging and hard-won public records, Donna exposes how children are still being sign...
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Parenting on Broken Ground Part III - The Collision of Wounds and Egos Between Step Parents and Bio Parents EP 10

September 16, 2025 • 58 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. In this episode of The Last Generation, we dive into one of the hardest realities of blended families: when the wounds of the past and the egos of the present collide between step-parents and biological parents. From loyalty binds to power struggles, we explore how unhealed trauma shapes the way adults show up for their children—and how those dynamics can either fracture or foster con...
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Parenting on Broken Ground Part II: Step-Parenting, Loyalty Binds, and the Fight to Build Trust EP 9

September 2, 2025 • 35 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. Parenting is hard enough—but blending families adds a whole new layer of complexity. In Part II of Parenting on Broken Ground, Donna opens up about the real challenges of step-parenting in a blended home, raising her 8-year-old alongside her husband’s 18-year-old. Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), she unpacks how old wounds, protector parts, and loyalty binds show up ...
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Parenting on Broken Ground: Healing Generational Trauma in Real Time EP 8

August 19, 2025 • 25 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. Parenting while carrying trauma can feel impossible—but what if your mistakes became your greatest teaching moments? In this episode, Donna dives into the sacred work of breaking generational cycles. Learn how to respond instead of react, repair ruptures, and reparent yourself—so your children can feel truly seen, safe, and loved. This is real-time healing in action, for parents brave...
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The Power of No: How Becoming a Rebellious Woman Saved My Life – and Sparked a Movement EP 7

August 5, 2025 • 20 mins
⁠⁠Join the movement and access resources here. They raised me to obey. To keep quiet. To accept whatever life — and authority — handed me. For years, I believed that obedience was love and silence was survival. Until one day, I realized the truth: those lies were killing me. This is the story of how I learned the most powerful word in the English language: No. In this raw and unfiltered episode, I take you deep inside my journe...
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Hyper-Independence: Strength or Shield? EP 6

July 22, 2025 • 16 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. You’ve been praised for being strong.Independent.The one who always figures it out.But what if your self-reliance isn’t a personality trait—what if it’s a trauma response?In this episode of The Last Generation, we dig into the truth behind hyper-independence—how childhood trauma, emotional neglect, and attachment wounds can wire us to believe we’re safer alone. You’ll hear real-life re...
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The Truth About Jealousy: When Insecurity Is a Trauma Response EP 5

July 8, 2025 • 40 mins
⁠Join the movement and access resources here. Jealousy is often dismissed as a toxic flaw—but what if it’s actually a trauma response? In this deeply honest episode, we uncover the roots of jealousy in childhood neglect, complex PTSD, and insecure attachment. Donna and her husband share a vulnerable conversation about how trauma can distort perception—like mistaking a simple kind gesture for a threat. You’ll learn how hypervigil...
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Learning to Love: Trusting Again After Trauma EP 4

June 24, 2025 • 29 mins
⁠⁠Join the movement and access resources here. In this deeply personal episode, Donna sits down with her husband for an honest conversation about what it’s like to love — and be loved — after trauma. They explore the resistance survivors often feel toward healthy relationships, how they navigate conflict and emotional triggers, and the slow, powerful process of building trust as a survivor of complex PTSD. This episode is a r...
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When Love Feels Unsafe - Complex PTSD in Intimate Relationships EP 3

June 10, 2025 • 11 mins
Join the movement and access resources here. When love feels unsafe is a deeply personal conversation about how trauma doesn't just affect our past, it follows us into the most intimate corners of our lives. If you've ever found yourself pushing someone away, misreading a partner’s tone, or feeling panicked by something as simple as a delayed text, you are not alone. We dive into why love can feel like a threat, even when it’s s...
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Complex PTSD - Beyond the Surface of Trauma EP 2

June 10, 2025 • 12 mins
Join the movement and access resources here. In this episode we’re talking about something that lives in the shadows for so many of us: complex post-traumatic stress disorder or C-PTSD. If you've ever felt like your pain runs deeper than one event, or like you've spent years trying to fix yourself but never quite feel whole this conversation is for you. C-PTSD isn’t always loud. It doesn’t always look like crisis. Often, it whisp...
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Breaking the Chain: Becoming the Last Generation of Trauma EP 1

June 10, 2025 • 26 mins
Join the movement and access resources here. Welcome to the very first episode of The Last Generation , a podcast born from truth, healing, and the unwavering belief that we can be the last generation to carry the weight of generational trauma. I’m Donna Simmons and in this episode, I share my story, not just the trauma I’ve lived through, but the patterns I’ve uncovered, the pain I’ve inherited, and the promise I made: to end th...
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The Last Generation with Donna Simmons: Transforming Trauma Into Purpose

May 22, 2025 • 2 mins
Welcome to The Last Generation, the podcast where lived experience meets lasting change. Host Donna Simmons, author, survivor, and advocate dives deep into the stories we rarely tell but desperately need to hear. From surviving childhood trauma and breaking free from generational cycles of abuse, to reclaiming identity, purpose, and power, Donna brings raw truth and hard-won wisdom to each episode. With heartfelt solo reflection...
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