But I believe that if we take life as it comes,
that we have choices at every juncture
to stay depressed or to become a victim
or to become a perpetrator or to overcome.
And in my case with the history of child sexual abuse
and two teen sexual assaults,
and I was almost looking to a sex trafficking ring
at the age of 19, I had a lot of darkness in my life.
And I was very much,
I clung to the victim mentality myself for a lot of years,
and it was not productive and it didn't get me anywhere.
And when I finally claimed my power
and began to heal from those things
and work through the process of healing those things,
I discovered that I am not at the mercy
of other people in life.
I choose all the time, I choose.
And so my goal for myself, my vision for myself
is to make the best possible choices
that will lead me to be the best version of myself
that I can be.