This episode, while vital in understanding why I needed to start this journey, this podcast and why I am passionate about uplifting women, also needs to come with a warning. It is not pleasant. It is not pretty. It is not packaged in a softly palatable way. It spells out very bluntly, a graphic depiction of domestic violence and how I came to find myself in a living nightmare, the kind I believed only happened to other people.

If you are also a survivor, this may bring up difficult feelings or transport you back to a place you would rather not visit. I understand and support if you cannot listen.

But also, monsters live in the dark. Hopefully, if enough of us tell our stories, share our experiences of healing and shine light on how these relationships develop in the first place, the monsters who perpetrate them will crawl deeper under their rocks and stay there.

Thank you for allowing me to be vulnerable and share.

In my very first episode, I run through who I am, why I am doing this, what I hope to accomplish and briefly what I think this could look like. This has been a dream for some time, to have a sacred space for women to find themselves, as I have been slowly discovering myself.

I wasn't sure what this would look like, but as I recently began discovering more of my voice and in the process of creating an in person women's circle, I realized that this medium could broaden that circle and embraced the unknown.

So here we are, making logos, recording intros and listening to my own voice and realizing it holds more power than I have given myself credit for. So as terrifying as this experience is, to lean into all of this and bring it forth, to not do so would be more terrifying at this point.

I hope you enjoy!