As a survivor of abuse and trauma, I have learned that survivors are not set up for success.  I have often felt like you can't win as a survivor.  I've rarely felt like there were safe places to talk about what happened to me.  I was often met with shame and blame.  I didn't know how messed up my childhood was till I realized how messed up my childhood really was if that makes any sense.  

As I started to realize there were a lot of things about me that needed to be changed, I started having a lot of complex medical problems.   It was through that medical mayhem that I realized how broken the system was and how judgemental a large number of people were against domestic violence survivors.  I went to doctor after doctor trying to figure out what was wrong with me.  With each doctor I went to, I was given more and more medical diagnoses and medicines.  The more doctors I went to, it seems the less serious doctors took me.  

It was when I was at rock bottom and contemplating suicide that I found hope.  I grasped at a final straw and went to Minnesota to see a functional neurologist.  I came back from a week-long intensive a completely different person and full of hope.  I learned that all of those medical providers were part of the reason I was so sick.  I learned so much out there about reaching wellness.  It was then that I became hungry to learn more and to continue this amazing new healing I had found.  

I have spent the last 4 years researching and researching to find one place that helps survivors like me to understand how trauma impacted them and to help them reset themselves so they can move on past the trauma.  Guess what, there isn't a place.  I wanted to use this podcast as a way to share my experiences as a trauma survivor.  I believe this is my calling from God and my way to help others know that there is hope.