Hello. How's it going? It's going well. How are you? I am well. I am well.

Well, I appreciate the email. Do you want to just start by reading the email? We'll take it from there.

Do you want me to put it in Skype here or something else? Yeah, I can go ahead and read it.

I am kind of getting a weird signal from you. It's like cutting in

and out a little bit. Do you mind just testing your mic a little bit more? Yeah. I mean just one

process is just ending here. So let me see here. Testing, testing, testing one, two, three.

I think the problem's gone. It sounds great. Okay, good, good. All right. So, yeah,

if you want to start with the email, we can take it from there. Absolutely. All right. Hi, Stefan.

My name is and I'm a three-year-old woman with an AC score of eight. I come from a difficult

background marked by physical abuse and severe neglect.

My father was an alcoholic and my mother holds extreme religious beliefs.

They separated when I was eight, both remarried within a year and my dad moved out of state, becoming largely absent from my life.

My stepdad was an alcoholic during my teenage years and was verbally and emotionally abusive to my siblings and me and occasionally physically abusive towards my mom.

My mom believed in spanking with her hand or household items, but never hit us except for one incident.

She is a shame and fear as control tactics and often told my brothers and me that we were going to hell. She had a tough

upbringing and was a single mother at 16. She is highly emotional, has fits of rage, and struggles

with depression and suicidal tendencies. She accused me multiple times of being the reason that she

wanted to kill herself. CPS was called on my mom nine times during my childhood, but nothing was ever done because

she would clean up quickly for inspections.

I have two older brothers who grew up in the same environment.

One is 30 and in prison for drug-related crimes, and the other is 28 with five children

non-his custody and currently an active addiction.

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