Tahlia Isaac
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Yeah.
They meant cutting out people that had been in my life for decades.
Yeah.
And it meant surrendering to –
not having everything that I wanted when I wanted it.
Like living in that world, if you want something, you just get it, you know, and you have that instant gratification or you live a certain type of lifestyle with a certain type of image.
And I, and I had to really go, I'm not, my worth is not the things I have.
My worth is who I am and who I am is this.
And I'm not going to compromise that because this is what I wanted when I was in prison.
I wanted this and so I need to work on this.
And it was tempting because, you know, you're lonely.
All I'd ever known as a 29-year-old adult
was that life, who I was in that world, what I brang to that world.
I was confident.
I knew how to move.
I knew the language.
I knew how to, you know, I knew people.
People knew me.
I felt like that was my entire life.