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The Wounded Healer: From Systemic Harm to Systems Change
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The Wounded Healer: From Systemic Harm to Systems Change
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Episode 2: The Origin Story of The Macro Lens
Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of child welfare system involvement, family separation, and the lasting trauma these experiences can cause.
What happens when the systems built to protect your family become the source of its deepest wounds?
Episode 2 moves beyond theory and into the story behind the platform. Drawing on two foundational articles from The Macro Lens, this episode traces the personal journey of Joseph Wernau, LMSW, from a family shattered by institutional failure to the creation of a platform dedicated to empowering others to leverage their own trauma to dismantle the systems that perpetuate harm.
This is an episode about institutional amnesia, the revolving door of caseworkers, and what it costs a child when the system refuses to remember them. It is about the difference between right outcomes and right methods. And it is about how the worst experiences of your life can become the most powerful fuel for changing the systems that caused them.
Henri Nouwen called it the wounded healer. This episode is what that looks like in practice.
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