After many years of struggling with alcohol abuse, Kayci - a single mom, returned to the church

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

"Coming back has really given me insight on where I want to be and who I want to be. Navigating my life through some of these changes is going to take some time. I can always hit my knees in prayer, it doesn't matter where I am, I find myself praying all the time."

Come Back Team:

Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone

Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose

Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson

Editor: Michelle Berger

Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	Well I am so excited to have you on the podcast.
0:17.0	Kyle has been telling me about you for a while.
0:20.0	Kyle's great.
0:21.0	He is great. We love Kyle. So anyone that's listening, Kyle was on a
0:25.9	podcast maybe like four or so months ago, but his episode is awesome and you are his cousin right
0:34.8	Distant but yes okay and funny how it all worked out but yeah we are really
0:41.4	Okay, cool. Well, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. I've heard a little bit about your story and I'm excited to hear more. So why don't we go ahead and jump in and in many ways still feel alone.
1:04.0	So I've gone through some things in my life that have really shaped the person I've become.
1:11.0	When I was younger, I, I you know I came from a large family so you know feeling like my
1:18.1	needs I didn't feel like they were always met and so that was always difficult for me and I kind of felt
1:25.8	abandoned in many ways, which I know I was not. My parents were actually great. They did the best they could, so I love them dearly.
1:35.4	There was some sexual abuse in my family that really changed the person that I was.
1:49.2	From that point on I kind of stopped trusting the world I guess you can say.
2:03.0	I was just a young girl when that happened and I learned, you know, at that young age how to read people and people please and just keep myself safe.
2:08.0	Those were good things and it's what I had to do to survive, but they really hurt me in a lot of ways too,
2:11.0	so by the time I was 15, any attention, you know, was good attention.
2:17.7	It didn't matter how good or bad it was.
2:20.5	So I found myself begging and pleading, you know, to be in people's lives, friendships,
2:28.7	and boyfriends, and by the age of 15 I actually tried to commit suicide which obviously I did not do very good at and I
2:36.4	lied about it too you know my friend called 911 called my parents you know they came to the
2:42.4	hospital and got me and it was like, oh no, that's not what I did, you know, I just, I didn't want people to see me and then I was hurting so bad so I I lied about it and that was just kind of how things always were for the longest time when I was I think I want to say 19 you know I started working that
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