How Storytelling Turns Divorce's Pain Into Healing

Send us Fan Mail Divorce is one of the least spoken of traumas. My guest today knows that terrain from the inside out. Travis Andre Ross is an actor, writer, producer, and storyteller. His award-winning feature film Central Valley — which he co-wrote, produced, and stars in — turns pieces of his own past into a story about family, addiction, responsibility, and redemption. In this conversation, we go behind the film to the life that shaped the storyteller: growing up in the wake of his dad leaving, the night a gun was pointed at him at a drug deal with his little brother standing beside him, and the moment at seventeen — sitting in an adult jail cell — when he decided to turn his life around. We talk about what happens when we stop running from our story and start telling it, including the couple who held a divorce ceremony with their kids — and why witnessing each other's humanity can reconnect us to our own. You aren't broken. You're human. Grab the free soulnotskin starter guide at soulnotskin.com. Resources & Workbooks: Book • Free Starter Guide • Heal What Raised You Workbook • Website © 2026 soulnotskin. All rights reserved.