Lonely Was My First Language

Lonely wasn’t something I felt for the first time in prison.It was something I learned as a child.In this episode of Unchained, I talk about growing up in chaos, my mom’s marriages, the boyfriend who did very bad things to me, and the kind of loneliness that happens when you’re a little girl carrying something too heavy to say out loud.I talk about my dad’s suicide one year before I went to prison. The guilt. The anger. The silence.And I talk about how trauma and grief didn’t create my self-destruction — they just gave it gasoline.If you’ve ever felt lonely in a room full of people…If chaos ever felt like love…If being needed felt safer than being alone…This one is for you.Follow, share, and send it to someone who needs to hear that they are not broken beyond repair.Healing is possible.