When I sing, "from my soul through my heart, chasing my pen," that's exactly what I mean. I found myself in the words I wrote. My story has always lived at the end of my pen because that's all I ever really had was my story. A story that started out in despair, ⎯a story that almost was cut short ⎯a story of survival, ⎯a story of hope. If I have hope I have every tool I need to make it back – back to a recovered – “show up and be good people”.