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Veteran, Mom, Grandmother, Now Advocate. A Story Of Hope and Healing
Hope can feel useless right before it becomes the thing that saves you. We sit down with Pristina Jackson, a military veteran, recovery advocate, and mental health speaker, to talk about what it means to grow up in trauma, spend years in survival mode, and still build a life that feels worth staying for.
Pristina walks us through homelessness and joining the Navy for stability, then the slow slide into despair, suicidal ideation, and the exhausting cycle of trying to get help while symptoms keep spilling over. We talk candidly about hospitalization, medication, and the messy middle where you…
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