Tahlia Isaac

So that was me too.

I'm like, I don't want to come back here.

I'm not going to do that shit again.

But I would have gotten out and it would have been like by the playbook.

I got a shitty job.

I hated my life.

I didn't know how to regulate my nervous system.

I would have sought out danger.

I would have gone for whatever made me feel good about myself.

And reverted to my old identity because that is all I had ever known as an adult in this world.

I had only ever known that identity.

And I wouldn't have had the capacity or the love and support to rebuild a different identity.

I would have stayed out for maybe a couple of months, maybe a year, you know, but...

The danger zone is two years.

Over 60% will return within the first two years of being released.

So I would have stayed out maybe for the first year, maybe not.

Who knows?

COVID might have happened and I would have gone, I don't want to do this anymore.

I don't know when that would have happened, but I had the tools and I had the tools from the start.

And so, yeah, you're right.