Jodi Veers

So one of the hardest things about being an incarcerated first responder for me was reliving my crash from another perspective.

I just, something deep inside me just really needed, really needed to do that.

But I remember just looking at that man and feeling equally for him, knowing that he was probably a good person that made a bad mistake.

And the cops were there.

The firefighters were there.

Everyone, all the first responders were there.

You know, they're talking about this person and about what a

piece of POS he was, you know, and I mean, I agreed with them and I felt myself to be the same.

But yet I had this just huge empathy for him too.

Like he didn't go out that day intending to end someone's life.

She had a lot of love to give to everyone, but she made you feel very, very special and important.

Just that's part of her motherly instinct, her just intuitive love that she gives out and projects to the world.

She was a midwife to the girls.

She was a midwife to us.

I mean, she would just be with you and make you feel okay without even really saying a whole lot.

Just accepting yourself.

And she's a very forgiving and just grounded person.

And so she really, you know, gave a lot of self-love back to me.