Hey, just a heads up, this week's episode isn't one to listen to with your kids.

There's adult language, and also we're going to be talking about abuse, physical and

emotional.

So, if you need to sit this one out or come back to it later, we totally get it.

Take care of yourselves.

When I think of hashtag MeToo, I think of powerful men and their downfalls.

But back in October 2017, when the spark was first lit, it was about all of these individual

voices coming together.

From famous actresses to Olympic gymnasts to your friends from college, a movement around

saying, yeah, abuse, harassment, assault, me too.

That was the month when Michelle Philgate decided to share her story.

It's a personal essay that she'd been working on on and off for about 10 years.

I was staying with my friend on her house, Bowton, Saw, Salito, and there were nearby wildfires,

and I woke up at dawn because I knew this essay was going to be published that day.

It's a story about abuse.

She experienced as a teenager from her stepfather, but it's really about her mom.

Sitting outside, watching the sunrise through the thick, smoky air, ash started falling

on her keyboard.

It felt so hard to know that this story was now exposed and out there.

It really felt like I was setting fire to my own life.

Michelle, titled her essay.

About my mother and I don't talk about.

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