Welcome back to the peripheral. You know, we hear a lot of stories about trauma and abuse on this

podcast. And after losing all of my siblings to mental health and addiction, I must admit that

I sometimes don't hold much hope for change. I sometimes don't feel like people can turn their lives around or

persevere and with a lot of these traumas we can loosely connect the dots between

people's childhood or their trauma to disorders and mental health that they experience as an adult.

Well, on this episode, my wonderful guest and friend, Shane, connects those dots.

In his story about sexual abuse, homelessness, and eating disorders, he explains exactly where some of his behaviors came from.

Obviously, we're covering some heavy topics, but Shane is a beautiful storyteller.

I have the utmost respect for him, and I feel that this is a very important episode to hear.

So without further ado.

Well, hi, Justin.

What are we talking about today?

Well, Shane, normally don't record in person.

It's very rare that I do this in person.

For a lot of different reasons, there's always noise concerns and whatnot, but I don't

like people to see me cry.

So that's really the reason why I don't do it in person.

But we're going to be talking today about your background, your upbringing, and specifically

a topic that I've wanted to cover and talk about and just never had anyone,

you know, have this concern in their life.

And it's not having a home, but there's a lot more that leads to that.

And that's really, I think, people become homeless.

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