A warning: this episode deals with a traumatic event that may be triggering for some listeners. Um, but I'm going, I want to get like a pretty mandola on my right knee because the left is taken already. One of her first big tattoos was of a lotus on her chest because of its symbolism. So lovely. So colorful, so beautiful.
And so it nourishes us like that root is still in the muck. It nourishes us and continues to fuel us and our endeavors. This is 2 Lives -- stories of people who faced darkness and how those moments transformed them. Both parents were struggling so she and her twin sister were raised by their grandparents until they were six.
For Stephani her own addictions started with food. Her grandmother raised her and her sister. That was her way to show love. Then when Stephani was in the eighth grade she started drinking.
A friend whose mom was a counselor told her about ALATeen -- a 12 step program for teens. It was magnifying and putting a spotlight on issues that made me feel uncomfortable I remember not wanting to go back, but I wished I wish I had gone back. I remember being in student council when I was in high school and like the older girls would just like shunned me because I would be so timid and shy and like insecure.
Stephani lived with her mom at the time who by this time had split from her dad. And I would cry and hold her and hate him and, and then witness her, allowing him to come into our home after that. And it was, there was nothing I could do to protect her. And anytime I would see proof of him in our house, I would throw it out into the front yard.
