19|Surviving BPD, Alcoholism, and the Choice to Stay: Cierra Madill’s Story (Part 2)

Intrepid Storytelling · Mar 14, 2026 · 1h 50m

(Part 2) What do you do when you’ve lost almost everything, and the only person left to save you is yourself? In this visceral and deeply moving episode of Intrepid Storytelling, Deanna Powell sits down with Cierra Madill to pull back the curtain on a journey defined by both profound loss and radical self-honesty. Cierra opens up about the "messy" middle of recovery, the part of the story that isn't always linear. She speaks candidly about the spiral that followed a devastating custody battle, leading to twelve days on a bathroom floor lost to alcoholism, and the jarring culture shock of…