#55: ☺️ What Survives the Trauma? Kindness. Breaking Cycles, Healing Generations with Mary Fields
What happens when the person who was supposed to protect you becomes the source of your deepest wounds?
In this week’s episode of Messy on Purpose, I’m joined by Mary Fields, a woman whose story is equal parts heartbreaking and incredibly inspiring. Mary grew up in extreme abuse, bounced between children’s shelters, and at just 12 years old, her mother left her alone in a house to raise herself.
Her childhood was chaos. Survival. Silence.
And yet—she didn’t stay there.
As an adult, Mary was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), became a mother, and made a choice to break every…
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