For much of her childhood, Kym Chartrand wanted one thing:

To be invisible.

She grew up inside a volatile home, experienced sexual abuse by her stepfather, watched her mother struggle with alcohol, helped raise her younger brothers, and learned very early that speaking the truth could come with consequences.

So she became quiet. She tried not to be noticed.

She carried things a child should never have been asked to carry.

In this deeply personal episode of the How To Battle Podcast, Kym shares parts of her story publicly for the first time.

She talks about the childhood moment when she sensed something was wrong, the betrayal she experienced after disclosing abuse, the day she finally stood up to her stepfather, and how she slowly began discovering a voice that had been buried for years.

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