In 2002, a tidal wave hit a small town on Canada’s eastern seaboard.
A suicide note named a bishop.
A diocese trembled.
And survivors—long silenced by shame and clergy—finally began to speak.
Their voices carried the secret I had been forced to keep.
They named what I could not.
But while Cape Breton burned under the weight of long-buried abuse,
I was unraveling in Australia—thousands of miles away,
under the care of a psychiatrist who believed in obedience over truth,
sacrifice over survival, and silence as salvation.
Dr. Helen Driscoll didn’t need evidence to contain me.
My shame had already done the groundwork.
She just stepped into the role the Church had left vacant.
This episode traces the devastating parallels between two collapses:
The public fall of a sacred institution back home,
and the private breakdown of a girl being drugged, gaslit, and managed into forgetting.
Not by accident.
Not for her health.
But for reasons rooted in belief, power, and something far more cult-like than clinical.
The survivors of Cape Breton shattered the silence.
But when their voices reached across the ocean,
I was already being silenced again.
This is the reckoning that was never meant to happen.
The story of two betrayals.
One by the Church.
The other by a woman who claimed to save me, but served a god of her own.