Laura

I am not healed, but I'm like at terms and at peace with everything that happened.

And it's very much something that happened and is behind me.

So when it comes down to it, I did a lot of things that I regret, but in the end, it brought me to where I am now.

Don't talk about this.

Right.

So I recently shared this story with my therapist just to be able to say it again to make sure that I still remembered it and that I wasn't going to just forget big parts of it or totally break down in the middle of it or anything.

But before I told her about it, it had been years since the last time I spoke about it.

And not a lot of people in my family know, very few people outside of my family know.

Pretty much it's the people who were around me during the time that it happened.

And then also like my husband and one or two other people.

I mean, I've listened to – I found it on TikTok.

Okay.

And that's kind of where I found a couple snippets.

And then I was like, oh, there's a podcast.

I'll listen to the podcast.

So I've listened to a lot – like most of the episodes, honestly, in the podcast.

And I was just listening to one on the way home from work one day.

And I was like, I think I should –

I think I should try to share my story here.

So I'm going to start kind of in my childhood and kind of work up to how this happened in the first place.