Katriona O'Sullivan

Every single person, even the women that you look at and think, why is she choosing him?

Why is she in that?

Why is she doing that thing over and over again?

I was that woman because I didn't have any value.

I didn't know how much I was worth.

But I want the desire for connection.

The hunger for connection was there.

And because I didn't know my value...

Any bit of attention, even from people who weren't worthy of me, was enough.

And I talk about sitting in a pub one time, waiting on a guy to give me cocaine, to flash me a look, to say, come on, we go home.

That was me.

That was the end of my experience of being a woman who wanted love but didn't have enough value.

I didn't know how amazing she was.

That was the levels that I went to.

And there's loads of women that I know that sell themselves short.

And that wasn't a conscious choice.

If I'd have known how beautiful I was and how worthy I was of more, I would have chose more.

But I lived this life that taught me that my value was dependent on men, that wasn't loved in childhood.

And that resulted in me constantly recreating these situations that reaffirmed my lack of value.

I'm not enough.