“No More Shame: Tracy’s Fight From Chaos to Calling”-episode22

Описание: Tonight on Feral But Sober, Tracy steps into the light and tells a story that almost no one survives — but she did, and she turned it into purpose.



Tracy grew up in a home where nothing was safe and nothing made sense. Her mother struggled with severe mental illness and Munchausen by proxy, keeping the kids sick for sympathy. Her father was never home. Violence, chaos, and addiction were the air she breathed. By the time she was a teenager, Tracy was smoking just to feel pretty, accepted, and comfortable in her own skin.



She fell into her first abusive relationship in high school — a drug‑dealing boyfriend who became her first husband. At 17, pregnant and terrified, she was sent away to give her baby up for adoption. When the baby’s father’s family offered her a home and a chance to keep her child, her own mother threatened to disown her. Tracy chose her baby and didn’t speak to her parents for over two years.



But that home came with its own dangers. Pain pills were handed out like candy, domestic violence was constant, and Tracy had no language for what was happening to her. She had three kids with him before he went to jail, leaving her 19 years old, addicted, and running for her life.



Her second husband brought more meth, more violence, and even a DEA raid. Her third husband was someone she met in treatment — and for a while, she rebuilt. She got her kids back. She stayed off meth and Xanax. She went to church. She tried to hold everything together.



But untreated pain, shame, and a broken medical system pulled her back into



doctor‑shopping and pills. A devastating car wreck, multiple surgeries, and 11 rounds of electric shock therapy only deepened the spiral. She was arrested for prescription fraud. She attempted suicide multiple times. Her own daughter had to resuscitate her — twice. Doctors said she should be brain‑dead. She had to relearn how to walk and talk. And still, addiction pulled her back.



Her clean date is March 12, 2012 — the day her daughter saved her life for the last time.



Today, Tracy has 13 years in recovery. She lives with lupus, but she lives with purpose. She did a meeting a day for almost five years. She worked the steps. She sponsors women across the state and online. She divorced the husband who wouldn’t stop drinking and married a man she met in AA — a man with 22 years in recovery who stands beside her in the life they rebuilt together. They own a body shop. She’s a CCAR‑certified interventionist. And she wrote a book called No More Shame: From Victim to Victorious.



Tracy says, “When shame said stay down, grace said get up.”
And tonight, she tells the truth about what it took to rise.