What does a little girl do when her mirror is shattered when the woman who's supposed to teach her how to love herself is too busy chasing shadows of affection in stranger's eyes?

Welcome back from abuse to abundance. I'm your host Tiffany Carter and this is Chapter 2, the prestigious alcoholic.

Today we're peeling back another layer of the perfect facade, but we're not looking at the house alcoholic. Today we're peeling back another layer of the perfect besat, but we're not looking at the

house anymore.

We're looking at the woman who taught me my first lessons about love and worth and hunger.

My mother, the eternal performer in a one woman's show where male attention was the only

standing ovation that mattered,

where daughters were supposed to be acts at best, stage hands at worst.

This isn't just another story about maternal wounds or daddy issues.

This is about the DNA of desperation, how we inherently fought the hunger for validation, how we learn to measure our worth

in whistles and sideways glances, how we become experts at shape-shifting and people-pleasing

before we even learn to write our own names. If you've ever caught yourself disappearing

to make someone else shine, if you ever felt like

love was a performance you couldn't quite nail, if you're still trying to unlearn the lessons that

taught you that you weren't enough, this chapter's for you. Because sometimes understanding where

our broken pieces came from is the first step to putting ourselves back

together again. As always, if you or someone you know need support, the Rain National Sexual

Assault Hotline is available 24-7 at 1-800-656 hope. You can swipe up and access it in the show notes.

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is rate there for you in a variety of ways, and you don't need to be in this alone.

If you're tired of hearing the same old basic mindset and motivational fluff talk,

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