Why the Wrong Person Feels Like Home | Sheleana Aiyana

You have an amazing book becoming the one that has taken over the world by storm, an amazing community at Rising Women. And uh you have this really interesting story that I started to read more about where you were in and out of foster chair uh care for a while, is that right? Up until you were 16, I think. Yeah. You grew up without a father.

Yeah. And your mother was also kind of having some challenges, so it felt like an intermittent mother. Yeah, kinda off and on. Yeah. How does someone who grows up in foster care has to work multiple jobs at 16 to survive and doesn't really have the mother that maybe they desired?

How does someone turn out healthy, conscious, and in a loving, committed relationship with a beautiful child? How does that happen? Well, you know, part of it I can explain and part of it I feel like is just grace. I I I often wonder that myself. Because I think so many of us go through these things and I wonder, you know, what's the difference between a person who experiences just as much or more trauma and doesn't make it out versus a person who does.

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