So that night, I realized, wow, I got to get out of this relationship.

But then I spent years and years and years dealing with the trauma of the harassment

and stalking from my ex as well as a lot of harassment from his legal team as well.

I'm Jamie Beebe.

And I'm Jake Deptula.

On today's episode of Strictly Stock and we're speaking with Kelly, who was stalked by

the man she escaped.

She thought leaving would end the violence.

Instead, it escalated.

The relationship was over, but the monitoring, the intimidation, and the constant fear

of being watched had just begun.

Kelly found herself navigating restraining orders and safety plans while trying to function in a world that no longer felt safe.

Years later, she would speak publicly for the first time about her experience and channel that trauma into something unexpected.

Highly trained personal protection dogs for

survivors living in fear. Kelly, thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me.

Of course. We're glad you're here. I want to start with the beginning. Okay. Who is Kelly before all this

happened? So before all of this happened, not that I had it easy, but I had a really good life, although

I definitely endured quite a bit of struggle.

Both of my parents died fairly young, each from cancer, and I had a really small family.

So losing both my parents was traumatic for me,

especially losing my mother. She was my best friend and I lost her in 2013 when I was 31 years old.

And then about four years later, I lost my father when he was fairly young from a different kind of cancer. So that was in 2017. And I ended up meeting Chris,

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