Season 2, Episode 8: Jenna

"It's like that conversation about ACAB. People ask, 'What is going to happen when you get assaulted?' I am like, 'Nobody because they never helped anyway.'" -Jenna

     Jenna shares her life with us. After watching her mother fall into addiction problems, she found herself in a caretaker role for her entire family. After running to her dad's house at 16 years old, she finds herself dealing with her step-mom, who also battled an addiction problem.

     She had to make challenging adult decisions at a very young age to keep her head afloat. She found herself having to live with her childhood sweetheart's family to escape the difficulties of her family of origin. She experiences an assault as a minor and shares what it was like to tell the authorities. As she is trying to heal, she discovers that her parents that have been divorced since she was 2, have both developed cancer.
     You will hear how all the unresolved trauma unravels into becoming an adult as she stays with her childhood sweetheart and how that ends up for her. She never had time to process one thing before another thing would hit her. Jenna is so funny. She finds the light in any darkness.

Jenna's Non-profit: https://www.glitsinc.org/

Crystal’s Non-Profit: https://rahabs-sisters.org/

Music by Chris Parkman: https://www.instagram.com/_chrisparkman_/?hl=en

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