From an abusive relationship and low self-esteem to dancer and author with Jennifer Anne Gordon

Becoming Parents Podcast · Feb 5, 2021 · 55m

In 2004 I moved to the mid-west to be the person I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. The relationship quickly soured, he was jealous, possessive moody, a chronic liar, emotionally abusive, and eventually physically abusive. I lost any confidence I had in myself. I had been an actress and performer, and an artist, and after several years with him, I was a broken person, too scared to even leave the house. Depression and fear we retaking over my life. I wanted more than anything to learn to ballroom dance, there was a studio close to my home and it took years to build up courage…