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.

Twelve hours.

Handcuffed to a chair.

“Just tell the truth.”

In this episode of Unchained, I share what happened during the interrogation that led to my confession — and how quickly the tone changed once they got what they needed.

I talk about being booked into my local jail, seeing familiar faces on both sides of the bars, being placed on suicide watch because I couldn’t stop crying, and being transferred to another county while I sat alone praying my mom would come.

She did.

This episode is about humiliation, loneliness, and the moment everything shifted.

Rehab wasn’t just about addiction.

It was my escape plan.

I share what it felt like to be so tangled in a toxic relationship that treatment became the only way out. I wasn’t just fighting drugs. I was fighting attachment, fear, and the version of myself that thought this was love.

This is the part of the story where I started choosing me — even if I didn’t fully understand it yet.