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[00:00:11] I literally couldn't talk to anyone for about two weeks. I was just about rocking in the corner because it was pretty significant, the harm that you've done.
[00:00:19] I've been there, I've been very, very doubt place where I could have ended it, you know, I was right there on the cuss. Sorry that it's just an emotional. I do believe the gentle parity is giving yourself permission to get it wrong.
[00:00:33] What the fucking you doing? Are you just taking off boxes or are you actually here to help? Because it doesn't feel like a helping. So I have to make everyone like, and if someone doesn't like me, it's my fault at how can I fix it?
[00:00:44] I said, you need to tell me, stop saying sorry. Like a diet need to keep, I can say sorry. I can remember thinking, how long would I need to hold a pillow over each night?
[00:00:52] Just so that he would pass out and not die. It was like I don't want to hurt him. I just made him to stop crying. I just made him to go to sleep and a higher risk of like bleeding more and higher risk of infection.
[00:01:04] They gave me like a solid month before I had him and then they gave me about two months after I had him before I resumed treatment.
[00:01:11] I was trying to give you these first beer at six a.m. and just didn't want to be now drinks, so he's just hitting nightclubs now.
[00:01:17] I personally quit pills, cocaine, I was taking everything I was doing in the M.A. I would get giant crystals off the dark way. So because he was in the military, I knew he would lose his job if I called the police.
[00:01:28] Once you have an understanding that whatever happens is oil gross, your perspective changes from black and white to color. It takes a village and I'm hoping that with time this podcast can really become a village for everyone that's in a little bit of need.