I wanted to share something more personal. You may or may not have heard me tell my story, if not here it is in brief👇🏻 I started using drugs and alcohol at the age of 9 or 10 , which rapidly became a serious probably and at the age 14 I was drinking almost daily and taking pills. By 16 I was heavily addicted to IV a heroin. I dropped out of high school in the middle of my junior year and joined Paul Mitchell a couple months later. I knew I was going to be a stylist at 14. I was excited to learn and eager to finish, but the drugs took me down so far. I was arrested mid cos school for possession of heroin. I ended up on probation for 3 years, ended up finishing school only 2 months late and found a salon home right before graduating, after a year of training under amazing stylists I once again fell deep into my mind and addiction. Midst a heavy bath salt induced psychosis I ended up in the psychiatric hospital for the millionth time and lost my first salon job. I spent months floating around until finishing probation and ended up traveling for the first time. Hitchhiking and rubbertramping, which turned into train hopping. I was in and out of salons, failing to stabilize myself due to my drug use and struggles with mental health. In 2016 I drove my car into the side of someone while falling asleep at the wheel(luckily no one was hurt) I ended up in jail again. A couple months later I left for ny to escape myself. Stayed sober for 1.5 months and fell back into my heroin addiction. That kept up for 2 more years until in the spring of 2019 i felt I was done and couldn’t sustain life anymore. I hung myself after drinking way too much vodka. I woke up in the psychiatric hospital unknowing of what happened. I had just barely survived suicide, was airlifted to the hospital where I was on a ventilator in icu for days. After getting out I knew I had no other choice but to try and get sober. If things were to the point I didn’t want to live and death wasn’t ready for me , I had to try living for the first time in my adult life. I got sober 2 months later in the summer of 2019 . CONTINUE IN THE COMMENTS if you care to read about my story👇🏻