One Big Darkroom
Stories of trauma, healing, survival, and finding your way home
I’m Juniper-Quinn. I’ve lived through the dark—and now I’m dragging it into the light.
My Big Darkroom is a space where safety isn’t just a concept—it’s a way of surviving, healing, and reclaiming your life. Out of trauma came truth. Out of silence came stories. That’s how this podcast began. While I can’t share all of the details yet, what I can share is the path forward: the messy, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes heavy journey of rebuilding. It’s the raw stuff: trauma, healing, solo travel, gut instincts, messy love stories, and the grief we don’t post about. We unpack what it means to find safety again, to trust yourself again, to live through truth instead of hiding from it.
You’ll hear my story. You’ll hear others’. And maybe, you’ll hear pieces of your own. This is where the quiet parts of life finally get to speak out loud. If you’re ready to hear them, I’m ready to share.
One Big Darkroom
You’re Not Doing the Holidays Wrong: Coping with Grief, Loneliness & Broken Traditions
Content Notice:
In this episode, I talk about grief, fractured traditions, trauma memories, and the emotional challenges many of us face during the holidays. If any of these topics feel tender for you, please listen gently and honor your limits.
In this personal episode, Juniper-Quinn explores the complicated, tender reality of the holiday season.. especially for those whose traditions have fractured, shifted, or disappeared altogether. From growing up in two households to navigating trauma anniversaries, she shares how grief, loneliness, expectations, and the weight of family dynamics can turn the “happiest time of the year” into one of the hardest.
Juniper-Quinn talks about Seasonal Affective Disorder, the emotional pressure of holiday culture, and the ways crisis often rises in the quiet spaces between celebrations. She opens up about the Christmas that changed everything, how she rebuilt her holiday life from the ground up, and why this is the first year she finally feels ready to celebrate again.
Along the way, she offers trauma-informed insight, gentle encouragement, and practical ideas for creating your own traditions. Whether that means a cabin in the woods, a beachside retreat, tiny rituals, or the ancient practice of the Rauhnächte.
If you’ve ever spent a holiday alone, struggled with family expectations, or felt out of place in a season built on togetherness, this episode is a soft landing.
A reminder that your pace is valid, your traditions are yours to build, and there is light to be found... even in the darkroom.
https://www.crisistextline.org/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/seasonal-affective-disorder#:~:text=Exposure%20to%20sunlight.,learn%20how%20to%20manage%20them.
https://www.school-of-souls.com/blog/the-magic-of-the-rauhnaechte-2024