Today’s episode is different. It’s heavier, more vulnerable, and rooted in a truth I carried quietly for a long time. What you’re about to hear isn’t easy — not for me to say, and not always easy to take in. But it is part of my life, part of what shaped me, and part of why I tell stories at all.

I believe in honesty. I believe in naming what happened. And I believe that even the hardest chapters deserve to be witnessed, not hidden.

So as you listen, I hope you’ll hold this story gently. It comes from a place of courage, survival, and the kind of truth that changes a person.