Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story

strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess.

To be perfectly honest, we don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.

Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard, We don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.

Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times.

We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.

The hard will be really hard and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.

We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.

But we also know that the joy we found is all the more profound because of the pain. So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly

because there will also be joy and hope and humor. Welcome to the ugly truth about the girl

next door. So hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Ugly Truth, About the Girl Next Door.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Lori.

And today we have two very, very amazing special guests with us, Margaret, Kimberly Sorallo.

So Margaret is the sister of a young woman who lost her life to suicide almost a year ago now.

You know, as we talked about in our last episode, September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

So we really want to highlight kind of that issue and we want to talk about how trauma can feed into that. We talked in our episode

last time about how trauma survivors are 29% more likely to have suicidal behaviors and ideations.

So now to be talking with you two ladies who have firsthand experience of losing someone is pretty heavy.

Let me let you guys jump in. Margaret, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself?

Yeah, I'm Margaret, and my former name was Keel. For those of us, for those of the people

listening who would have known our family. I grew up on

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