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A Pilgrim’s Progress

A Pilgrim’s Progress

By: Ben Johnson
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I'm Ben Johnson, Warzone Kid. That's my shorthand for those of us whose childhoods were more like warzones and less like nurseries. I'm a child sex abuse survivor, and as an adult I live with Complex PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, I'm a recovering addict, bulimic, and binge eater.

This podcast is about my own quest to live my life, to learn and become what I am. I'm a Pilgrim on the Trail to the Western Lnds, the place of peace and wholeness.

We've got a long way to go, Pilgrim. Let's walk a few miles together.

Daylight's burnin'!

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Episodes
  • It’s a Secure Perimeter, not a Safe Space!

    It’s a Secure Perimeter, not a Safe Space!
    Dec 30 2025

    I like the phrase “safe space” even less than I like the word “healing”, but I understand what it means. I just think of it as making a secure perimeter! That soothes my manly soul.
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    10 mins
  • After the Epiphany

    After the Epiphany
    Dec 27 2025

    A lot of us have an epiphany experience when we acknowledge the reality of our lives as warzone kids...but to misquote Churchill, that moment isn't the end of healing, or even the beginning of the end of healing, but it is, perhaps, the end of the worst of the suffering.
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    8 mins
  • XXV: Restorative Justice? Don’t Make Me Puke!

    XXV: Restorative Justice? Don’t Make Me Puke!
    Dec 23 2025

    That’s what I wanted to do when I first read the phrase restorative Justice on the Hidden Water website (https://www.hiddenwatercircle.org/) and then I learned better! I learned that restoring myself to wholeness is the only kind of Justice there is. 
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    1 min
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