I was raised in a homeschooling evangelical cult and experienced spiritual, sexual, emotional, and physical abuse as a child. During puberty I lost my older sister to suicide. My upbringing led to low PTSD, low self-esteem, poor decision making, and finding myself in several abusive relationships as an adult. The past six years I have many hours in therapy, reading, speaking with other survivors and slowly figuring out how to healthily integrate into the world and thrive. I now am in a healthy relationship, have a great circle of friends and am in a job I enjoy. I would love to help other survivors of childhood abuse or abusive relationships make it through those first hard steps of reclaiming their lives. I know how hard it is to leave behind family, community, and romantic relationships in order to heal and create the life you actually want to live.