4.7 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let me tell you who I am. |
0:02.0 | I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman. |
0:08.0 | I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author. |
0:13.0 | I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs. |
0:18.0 | I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I Yonla Van Zand, |
0:24.4 | and I am here to help you do your work. I'm here in Novi, Michigan, right outside the Moda |
0:33.2 | City, Detroit, to work with a family that is in breakdown. |
0:39.8 | I received a heartbreaking email from a woman named Felicia. |
0:44.5 | I was confident within myself. |
0:46.9 | But once the problem with my health began, I felt the confidence fading away. |
0:59.0 | A few years ago, I had some major medical problems with my female organs. It impact everything. It's like you riding on a roller coaster, you know, and I was just up and down, |
1:05.0 | depressed, emotional. |
1:07.0 | After suffering through years of medical issues and a hysterectomy, Felicia faced another tragedy. |
1:13.6 | After a night out with her husband Don, the couple got into a heated argument and crashed their car into a pole. |
1:22.6 | Don walked away uninjured, but Felicia wasn't as fortunate. Both of her legs were broken, very bad, so I had to carry her out the car. |
1:32.3 | I was in a wheelchair. I had to learn how to walk again. |
1:36.3 | With all the problems I was having, it was times I couldn't have sex, like for a |
1:42.3 | long period of time. I always heard was if you don't please |
1:45.8 | your man, somebody else will. Don, a self-employed contractor, has been married to Felicia for 13 years, |
1:53.0 | and they have four children, the two oldest children from Felicia's previous relationships. |
1:58.7 | But Felicia's medical issues left her mentally and physically scarred. |
2:03.6 | And in the midst of her pain, she became insecure, angry, and pushed down away. |
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