You're a Victim Until You're 18. After That, You're a Volunteer. | Jessica L. Morris

The James Finochio Show · Jul 10, 2026 · 1h 13m

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Jessica Morris grew up the youngest of four kids in a minister's home that looked perfect from the outside. Behind closed doors, her father was an abusive alcoholic, her mother was the family's chief enabler, and at a young age her father told her she was a mistake — that her parents only wanted three children. She carried that as her identity for decades.

In this conversation, Jessica walks through what it was like growing up terrified of both her father and God, how shame turned into resentment and then addiction — first food, then alcohol — and the years she spent quietly…