Hello folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and this is one of our conversation story episodes where a storyteller tells a story to someone on our team and they chat about it,

simple as that. Now, if you're hearing this on our podcast feed and you'd rather watch the

episode, instead, there's a link to that in the show notes. But all of our audio episodes, going back

over 16 years, are at risk-des show.com or wherever you get your podcast.

Now today, we're sharing a story that Miss Aisha told to our producer, Cindy Freeman.

If you've never seen Ms. Aisha's work on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, I cannot recommend it enough.

She is at my therapist's life on all three platforms.

She's a psychotherapist, and she's truly brilliant.

And in inspiration, you might remember Ms. Aisha from the episode Unbreakable Revisited,

where she talked to Melanie Hamlet about that extraordinary story.

Now, this one, like that one, I should warn you, is very much about abuse.

Ms. Aisha is exceptionally wise on the subject of abusive dynamics and relationships.

And this story you're about to hear, I guess, is kind of in part a bit like an origin

story for kind of what led to her becoming someone who shed so much light for so many

people on this topic. So I'm going to take a quick break and then we'll hear our own

Cindy Freeman and Miss Aisha with a story we call,

Create My Life.

We'll be right back.

AI is incredible.

They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem,

pirate style.

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