Speak Loud

In this episode of Speak Loud Podcast, our guest Matthew Chadwick bravely shares his wounds from his past sexual abuse, how he is dealing and healing with the re-opened wounds, and finding light amidst those tragic events.BRIEF BACKGROUND OF MATTHEW CHADWICKMatthew Chadwick is married with 10 kids and 11 grandkids. He is living in Salt Lake Area his entire life. His parents got divorced when we he was 10 and his mother remarried when he was 11, then shortly after they moved. Life started to become challenging as he was uprooted from friends and needed to adjust to a new neighborhood.HOW THE SEXUAL ABUSE STARTED[02:28]The sexual abuse started with his brother, but it only happened once because Matthew’s Parents knew about the incident after being confronted by his sister.[03:29]About a year later, this time during his puberty stage, he had communicating hydrocele. A condition where one of his testicles would grow four times the size of normal. He decided to go to his stepfather about it, but that lead him to b