After all the healing and trauma and shit that I went through, I feel like I'm just like on the other side and it's weird to even look back at that time as a whole because I don't recognize even who that person was in me.

I feel like I'm more myself now than I have been in the last four years, you know, but a better version of me. I feel like I was already pretty strong before, but now I definitely am like 10 times over.

I think the biggest part for me was knowing that, or me trying to convince myself that it wasn't my fault. One thing I would say to somebody who's healing from abuse is know that it's not your fault and there is life after the abuse.

I speak as someone who is an artist, is creative, smart, goofy, tall, and is a bartender.