Human Amplified

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October 30, 2018 EPISODE 001 | The Cycle Stops With Me: Childhood Abuse, Addiction, and Healing
For Brandi Fleck, it wasn't a plan. It was a duffel bag, a borrowed shirt, and a mother who became a door.
She started smoking at 12, in a friend's trailer, long before she understood why she reached for it. At 14, she and her mother fled the man responsible for both, and started over in a different state with almost nothing.
Brandi shares what it actually took to get safe, why quitting smoking years later taught her as much about healing as it did about willpower, and how she came to believe that breaking a cycle of abuse is less about one big moment than about years of small, uneven work.
32 min

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