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But I believe that if we take life as it comes,

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that we have choices at every juncture

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to stay depressed or to become a victim

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or to become a perpetrator or to overcome.

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And in my case with the history of child sexual abuse

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and two teen sexual assaults,

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and I was almost looking to a sex trafficking ring

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at the age of 19, I had a lot of darkness in my life.

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And I was very much,

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I clung to the victim mentality myself for a lot of years,

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and it was not productive and it didn't get me anywhere.

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And when I finally claimed my power

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and began to heal from those things

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and work through the process of healing those things,

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I discovered that I am not at the mercy

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of other people in life.

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I choose all the time, I choose.

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And so my goal for myself, my vision for myself

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is to make the best possible choices

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that will lead me to be the best version of myself

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that I can be.