She shares her lived experience with PTSD, dissociation, and suicidal thinking — and the moment she realized there were only two ways out.

Today’s guest is the founder of My Truth Memoir Writing Services, where she helps others tell their stories with honesty, compassion, and courage.

But her work didn’t begin as a profession. It began as survival.

After a tragic loss in childhood and years of silently carrying trauma, she was later diagnosed with PTSD and panic disorder — conditions that shaped her inner world while she continued to build a life on the outside. For more than twenty years, she worked as a special education teacher, raised three children, and did what so many people do: she kept going.

Until she couldn’t anymore.

In this deeply personal conversation, she shares the lived reality of dissociation, panic, generational trauma, and the moment she realized she believed there were only two ways out.

Her memoir, Two Ways Out: A Memoir of Then and Now, was written to break the silence around suicide and normalize the conversations so many people are afraid to have.

We talk about what it means to lose yourself — and how you begin to find your way back.

This episode is about survival. About truth. And about choosing to stay.

If you’ve ever struggled in silence, or loved someone who has, this conversation will remind you that you are not alone.