The Trigger and The Truth

The Trigger and The Truth

Welcome to The Trigger and The Truth—a transformative podcast and healing platform created to explore the breakdowns in our most meaningful relationships and the unspoken truths behind them. Hosted by mental health advocate Tina White, this space offers real conversations, raw storytelling, and expert insight to help you gain clarity, find peace of mind, and grow through what you’ve been through. Whether you seek understanding, closure, or a sense of direction, you're not alone—your healing journey starts here.

Episodes

August 10, 2025 8 mins

🎙️ Episode 39: The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Relationships That Should Have Been a One-Night Stand

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Mental Health Matters

📝 Episode Summary:

21 Questions to Check If You’re Holding On to Something That’s Holding You Back

Some relationships were never meant to make it past sunrise — but somehow, here you are, years in, emotionally drained, rewriting history in ...

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🎙️ Episode 38: Cognitive Range-Being Able to Cope with Life on All Levels

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Mental Health Matters

📝 Episode Summary:

Somewhere along the way, the movement to destigmatize mental health got… distorted.

We didn’t just normalize therapy — we turned it into a personality trait.

We didn’t just encourage self-awareness — we started diagnosing every feeling.

And now? Ev...

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🎙️ Episode 37: I’m Processing: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Healing Without a Break

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Mental Health Matters

📝 Episode Summary:

Some storms don’t pass in a day. Some storms don’t pass in a year. They change shape, slow down, speed up—but never truly disappear. And yet, life still demands that we live, parent, love, work, and keep showing up in the middle of them...

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🎙️ Episode 36: The Audacity of Delusion: Chosen and Still Betrayed - Delulu for Decades

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Mental Health Matters

📝 Episode Summary:

What happens when the people closest to you are the very ones who harm you? In this episode, we unravel the heartbreak of betrayal by those we trusted the most—family. Tina White opens up about the deep mental health toll of hidden...

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🎙️ Episode 35: The Broken Bone Theory — And What Happens When It Never Heals

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Year of the Therapist – Grief, Truth, and the Unspoken

📝 Episode Summary:

In this deeply reflective episode, Tina White explores The Broken Bone Theory, a powerful concept that suggests people who never physically break a bone may be wired to break in ways that aren't visible: emoti...

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🎙️ Episode 34: Who Opened That Door? Love, Lies, and Lingering Spirits: A Spiritual Wake-Up Call on Soul Ties and Energetic Contamination

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Year of the Therapist – Grief, Truth, and the Unspoken

📝 Episode Summary:

In this deeply personal and spiritually charged episode of The Trigger and The Truth, host Tina White pulls back the curtain on what really happens ...

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Healing Starts Here: National Therapy Directory — a national therapy directory curated specifically for men navigating childhood trauma, sexual confusion, and emotional silence.

This isn’t just a list of names.

It’s culturally competent, trauma-informed, and purpose-built for Black and Brown men who’ve been carrying pain in silence for way too long.

From New York to L.A., Atlanta to Chicago—in person or virtual—these are providers wh...

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🎙️ Episode 32: What’s Grief? “Not Just Death—The Losses We Don’t Talk About”

Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

Host: Tina White

Series: Year of the Therapist – Grief, Truth, and the Unspoken

🔊 Episode Summary:

Grief doesn’t come with a timer. It doesn’t fit into a caption. It doesn’t make itself digestible just because people around you are uncomfortable with your pain.

In this raw and necessary episode of The Trigge...

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🎙️ Bonus Episode: God’s Favor Will Let Them Get It Wrong, So You Can Get It Right

Series: Full Disclosure– The Trigger and The Truth Podcast

Host: Tina White

Episode Overview:

"Welcome back to The Trigger and The Truth. I'm Tina White, and today’s episode is a divine clapback. We’re calling this one: ‘God’s Favor Will Let Them Get It Wrong, So You Can Get It Right.’ Because there are folks out here trying to figure out how yo...

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🎙️Episode 30: Karma Simplified – Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You

Subtitle: "Every Action Has an Echo — And Karma Keeps Receipts"

Series: Full Disclosure– The Trigger and The Truth Podcast

Host: Tina White

Episode Overview:

In this episode of The Trigger and The Truth, Tina White breaks down karma—not as some abstract, cosmic justice system, but as real-life, everyday accountability.

This isn’t about r...

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🎙️Episode 29: Full Disclosure: The Child Pays for the Sins and Secrets of the Father

Subtitle: Confused, Complicated, and Carrying It Alone – The Emotional Reset Men Deserve

Series: Full Disclosure– The Trigger and The Truth Podcast

Host: Tina White

Episode Overview:

This episode sits with the truth that’s often avoided. In too many households, men are suffering silently from things that were never their fault but hav...

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🎙️Episode 28: Still Spending Money From '88: When Jealousy Cancels Your Check and Your License

Series: Rewind & Rise – The Trigger and The Truth Podcast

Host: Tina White

Episode Description:

In Episode 28 of The Trigger and The Truth, Tina White unpacks one of the most frustrating, unspoken truths about building a career in real estate—and in life: sometimes, the people who should support you are the ones who try...

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🎙️ Episode 27: The Receipts Are Real: $2,000 Lamb Chops, the Fake Mentor and What They Don’t Tell You at the “Boss Babe” Retreats

Series: Rewind & Rise – The Trigger and The Truth Podcast

💡 Episode Summary:

In this raw and revealing episode of The Trigger and The Truth, Tina White takes us back to the early days of her real estate career—when hustle met heartbreak, and the people who should’ve poured into her t...

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🎙️ Episode 26 -DARVO in Real Life: The Power of Truth Part 4: Leading From the Scar, Not the Wound

July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

Host: Tina White, The Trigger and The Truth

🎧Part 4 of 4: “Leading From The Scar”

Overview:

"Welcome back to The Trigger and The Truth. I’m your host, Tina White—and today, we wrap up the DARVO in Real Life series with the part most people never get to:

Reclaiming you...

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🎙️ Episode 25 -DARVO in Real Life: Rebuilding from the Rubble

July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

Host: Tina White, The Trigger and The Truth

🎧Part 3 of 4: “Boundaries, Business, and Becoming Whole Again"

Overview:

"Welcome back to The Trigger and The Truth. I’m Tina White, and this is Part 3 of our July Spotlight: DARVO in Real Life.

The betrayal happened. The lies spread. The isolation se...

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    🎙️ Episode 24 -DARVO in Real Life: The Public Lie vs. The Private Pain

    July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

    Host: Tina White, The Trigger and The Truth

    🎧Part 2 of 4: "Living in the Aftermath of DARVO"

    "Welcome back to The Trigger and The Truth. I’m your host, Tina White. This is Part 2 of our July Spotlight: DARVO in Real Life.

    Today, we’re talking about the part nobody warns you about: what happens ...

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    🎙️ Episode 23 -DARVO in Real Life: Surviving the Silent Battle

    July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

    Host: Tina White, The Trigger and The Truth

    🎧Part 1 of 4: “The Betrayal Nobody Saw Coming”

    Overview:

    This episode unpacks the shock of being violently betrayed by someone you once trusted—not just personally, but professionally—and the psychological chaos that followed. Tina speaks candidly about how ...

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    🎙️ Episode 22 -"Have You Ever Been DARVO’d? The Abuse Tactic Nobody Talks About"

    July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

    Host: Tina White, The Trigger and The Truth

    🎙️ Series Launch Intro: DARVO In Real Life – Mask Off

    “Let me tell you how we got here…

    A couple weeks ago, I received a text message from my beloved niece.

    Someone I love like my own child.

    A young girl who, in a different life, would've been sleeping...

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    🎙️ Episode 21: Carefully Curated Facade: The Mental Health Cost of Performing for Likes and Validation

    Host: Tina White

    Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

    Series: July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

    💡 Episode Summary:

    In today’s episode of The Trigger and The Truth, we’re pulling back the curtain on a reality many of us get caught in—the carefully curated facade of social media.

    We live in a world wh...

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    🎙️ Episode 20: Functional Burnout-"High-Functioning, Low Peace: The Hidden Cost of Survival Mode"

    Host: Tina White

    Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth

    Series: July Spotlight – Mental Health & Entrepreneurship

    💡 Episode Summary:

    You’re not in bed all day. You’re not crying in a corner.

    You’re working. You’re posting. You’re performing.

    But inside? You’re unraveling.

    In this episode of The Trigger and The Truth, Tina ...

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