Mental Breakthrough
Season 2

 
 
 
 

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Maryann Samreth is a wellness writing coach and founder of Sincerely Miss Mary. In this season she invites healers, coaches, therapists, and writers in the mental health and thought leadership space to share their stories of overcoming adversity. By exchanging our truths, we pave the way for others to feel safe experiencing theirs. When we share our stories filled with meaning and inner wisdom, we create a more compassionate world.

 
 

Season 1
Discover the origin story of my pen name

Maryann Samreth, the woman behind the once anonymous pen name, Sincerely Miss Mary, shares stories of the darkest season in her life in this memoir podcast. In season 1, she dives into her repeated breakdowns of heartbreak, battling mental illness, and escaping an abusive relationship. Her gift of writing carries her away from toxicity and launches a healing journey where she reconnects with her Cambodian ancestral roots and breaks the cycle of generational trauma. Through sharing chapters of her life, she connects and empowers you through your healing journey.

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S1:E21: The Curse of Generational Trauma
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S1:E21: The Curse of Generational Trauma

In this episode, I talk about the curse of generational trauma and how I was conditioned to suppress my emotion because of the unprocessed trauma my parents endured. It is important to remember if we’re a child of immigrants, and our parents had a tumultuous upbringing, they were parenting from a place of unprocessed pain. They were parenting from trauma and without the mental health resources to help them adjust back to normalcy. Getting to a place of compassion, acceptance, and understanding why our parents are the way they are, will free us from the burdens of our past selves.

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S1:E20: Reclaiming the Cambodian Legacy
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S1:E20: Reclaiming the Cambodian Legacy

For so long, I shamed my Cambodian heritage to assimilate to American white culture. But after my tumultuous breakup that ignited my healing journey, I began to unravel my family's history and learn about the story of their escape from the Khmer Rouge regime. In January of 2020, pre-pandemic, I traveled to Cambodia with my family and uncovered the untold stories of my family's experience living in the Killing Fields.

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S1:E11: I Wanted To Be A White Girl
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S1:E11: I Wanted To Be A White Girl

I share my Asian American story of growing up in a white neighborhood and wanting to be a white girl until I met my best friend in 4th grade, Jenna, a white girl who taught me to embrace my Cambodian heritage.

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