The Intersection of Childhood Trauma and Substance Abuse

This chapter delves into the speaker's emotional challenges stemming from a disruptive childhood in foster care, revealing a painful connection between emotional suppression and substance abuse. As they begin to write a memoir, they confront their past of defensive coping mechanisms versus the need for radical vulnerability.

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