So this one is a little dark, pretty heavy, and at times flat out triggering to some I'm sure. I -DID NOT- include any explicit details of ANY of the abuse/neglect I endured various places. This gave you a basic overview of my life from age -1/0 to age 8. These are your formative years, crucial to many patterns that will playout through your adolescence, into adulthood and perhaps even through your entire life if you're unable to get the help you need to correct and deficits of this nature.

As a survivor of mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, sexual and eventually domestic abuse, I developed a lot of red flag tendencies as early as age four. I've worked tirelessly to keep striving towards the kind of person I want to be rather than the person I was quite unintentionally raised to be. All of the adults who surrounded me in my childhood w ...