What happens when the people meant to protect you start disappearing right in front of you?

In this episode, I take you into the beginning of my parents’ drug use — when things shifted from unstable to unpredictable. The late nights. The tension you could feel before you could explain it. The quiet ways a child learns to read a room just to survive it.

We talk about what it’s like to move over and over again, never fully unpacking, never fully settling. How instability becomes normal. How you grow up fast without realizing you had to. And how, even in the middle of chaos, resilience starts forming.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about truth.

It’s about what it does to a kid when home doesn’t feel steady — and how that kid eventually learns to build something different.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to become strong before you were ready, this one’s for you.