"...I'm going to figure a way to never ever let that happen again, that was not the person I wanted to be—in fact, I as an acupuncturist know what I was doing was toxic to body..."

"...I really did see my life flash before my eyes & I thought 'this is it, this is it— the end' but I heard a voice say 'not now—not now' and it just happened so fast, the car was spinning, and I just felt like I was out of my body like viewing it as if I was someone else floating above this car..."

"...I've never been to the ER , I've never had anything like that happen to me before so I didn't really understand the magnitude of what was really happening, I just know that I was struggling to breathe..."

"...I found that he was someone in and out of prison and I continued to remain in that relationship even though he was always absent and when he was present he was abusive. Around the age of 26 years old—I ran from him while he was away but..he found me..."

"...navigating the life of a 7 year old whose father just been stripped away, who was taken to prison, who had just been outed as a pedophile/child abuser -- to a point where her whole world had just completely crumbled..."

"...he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at 60 years old and that really changed the tragectory of my life and my thought process of life and how we're supposed to move through life..."

"...my mom fought hard to break generational curses, meaning when I ran away my mom was like it's not happening like we're gonna break that curse, you're going to stay here with us, we're going to work through whatever hormonal things you're going through as a teenager..."

"...5 years ago we were in pandemic stages and when you think, it's end of May-- we would've been in lockdown for quite some time..alot of us were starting to feel very hopeless...it took away alot of the busyness to really sit in what it is that I was doing/ wanted to be doing..."