From Survivor to Advocate: Carissa Alexandra's Journey of Resilience

It's time, and I feel like the joke with me is, and this has been this way for a very long time, that I am stuck in somebody's helicopter, and I am taken out to the middle of the ocean someplace, and they drop me in the ocean, and they say, have a nice swim, and I'm stuck out in the middle of the ocean someplace, and they drop me in the ocean, and they say, have a nice swim. But for some reason, that's what has worked for me. It's when things get calm that I just get really bored. And I've got to, you know, they get something else to do to, you know, kind of fire things up. Because that's, you know, I get really bored with doing the same thing. And I, you know, but somebody was talking about, you know, I get really bored with doing the same thing. And, you know, but somebody was talking about, you know, at first we're survivors, you know, and we crawl, you know, yeah, we're out in that whatever the ocean and grab onto a raft and we survive, you know. And then we start, you know, living our lives and we become survivors. But I feel like I have to go back and find those people and bring them back out too because I found the way out, you know. and I want other people to find the way out. And I think it's part of our healing, at least for me, it very much has been, where to help myself heal, one of the things that happen is I'm helping somebody else and I'm giving back to them. At the same time, it is healing me. And people say, oh, it's so wonderful what you're doing. I says, all I'm doing is what I was given and what I wish would have been given at the time. You know, and that what I wish would have been given is what my motivation is for you know change and looking toward what else can I do yeah Annie are you there do you have any input we're kind of not including you