From too overweight to adopt children to a fitness coach with Bon Collins

Becoming Parents Podcast · Jan 14, 2021 · 58m

In my early years, I dealt with my birth parents mental health

- at 5 they joined what I grew up thinking was a normal church, but as an adult learned was a cult

-experienced emotional and physical abuse -was kicked out at 18 - met my husband (he is an autist but was diagnosed at 40 years old)

- struggled to integrate into the real world culminating in multiple suicide attempts and poor mental health in my early 20s.

-started dieting at 18 when I was told I was too fat (in reality I weighed 140lbs)

- married husband.

-experienced infertility

- had an accident in 2009 in which face, neck, and…