Just weeks away from receiving her Master’s degree in counseling, 42 year old Christy Sims was viciously assaulted by her boyfriend with industrial sulfuric acid. Christy spent two months in a coma, underwent multiple reconstructive surgeries and today she lives to tell her story of overcoming!
Christy now sits on the board of directors for the Christy Sims Foundation, created to serve domestic violence victims by ‘educating the community, increasing awareness and raising funds to support victims of domestic violence.” Come join us as we hear more about Christy’s story, how she’s overcome great trials and how God is using her story to shed light on domestic violence around the world.
hey there I’m Priscilla Shire thank you
so much for joining us today on the chat
it is a treat to be here with you I
don’t know if you’ve ever had this
happened to you like it happened to me
that I was watching a television program
or maybe you heard a radio interview or
you just saw somebody from afar whose
story was so moving that mattered so
much whose story was so gripping maybe
by what you the traces of it the scars
of it that you saw on them it really
impacted you in a way that stayed with
you long after that interview was over
or long after that conversation was over
it just kind of hung with you in your
heart and in your mind that happened to
me and it happened fairly recently and
right away I started putting as many
things in motion as I could to be able
to sit down with this guest myself
because I wanted to meet her her story
is one of absolute tragedy but one
really that has a lot of beauty that
rises out of these ashes you’re going to
want to stay tuned today because you’re
going to want to meet Christie Sims I’m
going to let you hear her story I’m
gonna let you see some photos and I’m
going to let you hear a 9-1-1 call that
really sets in motion a course of events
that is going to stick with you for a
long time stay tuned
hey there i’m priscilla shirer welcome
to the chat with Priscilla listen you
need to know that this is part 2 of a
conversation that we have already been
having with somebody that is very
quickly becoming one of my favorite
people ever on the planet so if you have
not you know heard all of the the
incredible conversation that we’ve
already had in part one then you’re
going to want to make sure and view that
as well it kind of helps to set the
foundation for what we’re going to be
talking about today I’ve been
introducing to you an incredible woman
whose story is impacting literally
millions of people who are hearing her
story their lives are being changed in a
number of different ways I believe lives
are being saved really as she’s been
vulnerable and honest and brave so would
you please help me welcome back to our
show today miss Christy sin
what we’ve heard the details of your
story in part one of the conversation
but for those who might just be tuning
in for the very first time tell us what
happened to you I was attacked with
severac acid on April 28th of 2013 by my
ex-boyfriend because he he believed that
I was leaving the relationship and I
guess he said to himself if she’s not
gonna be with me she’s not gonna be with
anyone so she his goal I guess was to
destroy my face so and in a sense he
accomplished that goal because you now
look differently you have to live your
life differently so much of where women
find their femininity you know we don’t
realize sometimes that we’re counting on
our femininity to come from our hair
until we lose it maybe through
chemotherapy or different body parts
that to us are what carry our womanhood
and a lot of that you lost through this
attack so how do you sit here with so
much confidence esteem grace elegance
dignity how do you find that again when
you look in the mirror and don’t and
don’t see what you always thought you
would it’s been hard because I didn’t
just wake up from that coma burned I
woke up and they had cut all of my hair
off too I was completely if you can
imagine waking up burn and bald lost all
of my femininity all of it I didn’t look
like a woman I didn’t look like a woman
and I just started looking like a woman
like my face literally is like God is
healing me slowly I don’t have that
original face but I’m starting to get my
cheekbones back I didn’t have cheekbones
a year ago I used to have these really
deep dimples and now there’s one little
dimples coming back I don’t know where
it came from but it’s coming back I’m
slowly starting to feel a little bit and
started to look in the mirror and see a
little bit of the woman that I was
before even if it’s just not just my
eyeballs you know I’m always looking for
remnants of who I used to be and people
have a tendency to say well Krista
you’re still beautiful you’re still
beautiful and I appreciate it
I am very well what beauty is and what
Beauty means and I and I believe that I
am the definition of beauty on the
inside but I was a pretty woman and I
didn’t have any scars on my face and I
didn’t have any scars on my body and so
I’m learning to walk into this walk in
this new existence this is new for me
it’s only been 2 years people look at me
and they look at all the things that I
do I speak all over the country I’m on
these talk shows and they forget that
this just happened to me two years ago
and I lived one way for 42 years
42 years I looked one way it’s like
you’re walking around in a different
body it’s a totally different body yeah
and it is unreal it’s hard to explain to
people what this is like that this is
not just about somebody taking my beauty
he took my identity when someone says
priscilla shirer
your face comes to their mind your face
it is our main identifier i named in our
face that’s how you identify with the
person right well how do you identify
with me now because my face has changed
every day for two years almost every day
my face changes I can without that
people relate to you completely
differently because your face has
changed I tell you what has happened
over the course of two years before see
the qualities that I have now I’ve
always had those qualities I would not
have survived this if I didn’t have
character integrity grace strength curve
because the asset can’t touch all that
oh yeah you can’t burn what I got you
can’t burn it
you cannot burn what I have on the
inside I mean the main thing I have on
the inside of me is the glory of God you
can’t touch it he didn’t even touch the
surface of of who I truly am the essence
of truth who I truly am he didn’t touch
it and that’s why I’m still walking
around with a smile on my face that’s
why I still have gratefulness that’s why
I don’t hate him I don’t hate this guy
haven’t forgiven him quite yet I’m
working on it but I don’t hate him um
have you talked to him since this
happened no no he of course apologized
for all the world to see on camera at
the trial at the sentencing but what was
his sentence 20 years 20 years you feel
like he got justice no I don’t think you
can ever get justice for changing every
aspect of a person’s life so he touched
every corner of my life
he took my beauty well my outer
appearance because I still have my
beauty he took my job I was a
professional counselor
I can’t counsel when you disfigured face
to face it just doesn’t happen I’m
hoping to go back to that one day I’m
getting better but he took my few
counseling all of us we got a whole lot
of people counseling right now so I’m
praying that I’ll be in even better
counselor than I was before but if you
can imagine he affected my money I lost
my job I lost my career I lost my money
he has traumatized my children they knew
a mother for 10 and 13 years and then
one day they see me and I look like a
totally different person that is
traumatizing for a child how do you ever
justify that so to answer your question
I’m glad that I got some justice but I
don’t know what would ever make up for
this and so I don’t spend a lot of time
even thinking about it I just know for
20 years I got to deal with him for 20
years he can go you know yeah so you
don’t dwell on him you don’t dwell on
the past you’re looking forward no I try
my best and it’s like you said before I
having to it took a long time to get to
this point but once I realized see that
first year because I have such a prayer
mother she said God is gonna restore you
he’s going to restore he’s going to
restore you and the Holy Spirit said no
I’m not going to restore you I’m gonna
renew you and so once I accepted the
fact that you don’t get to be that
Christie ever again so now what do you
do mm-hmm
do someone that has been through all of
us even if it has not been this type of
a tragedy the hiccups that all of us go
through in life because is life we live
in a world where evil is present sin is
present our own flesh is present do you
think that one of the one of the ways we
we move forward and move on and don’t
get steeped in bitterness or resentment
or anger is that we stop looking for
restoration and start looking for
renewal what the new thing is God wants
to do as a result of what has happened
in our life it is the only way that I’ve
been able to move forward and I stopped
asking the question why me Lord why me
and I started asking why not me why not
me there were two year olds and they’re
burning it with me and some of them died
I lived why then why anybody why does
anybody suffer this is just my story
somebody suffering from cancer right now
somebody’s the agony over something else
right now this is just my story so once
you stop asking the question why me and
stop saying and start saying why not why
not me and God what do you want me to do
with this what do you want me to do with
these scars so this is what we’re
working with now you know what I mean
this is what I’m working with I can’t do
anything about it
and that goes for whatever scars
somebody has what in wine or in Dixie’s
emotion what do you want me to do yeah
and I think what he wants me to do is to
let the world know that we are not
defined by our circumstances I am NOT a
victim of domestic violence I am a
survivor of domestic violence I lived I
lived and you lived to remind women a
number of things but one of them is that
you are not defined by what you look
like
exactly and it’s huge that is a huge for
women
if it’s this story is it encompasses so
many different things it’s not just
about domestic violence domestic
violence is just a hot topic that’s a
global issue right now and everybody’s
talking about it finally it needs to
buzz phrase the dialogue needs to be
there and it’s in and I’m just this
vessel but within this story is
spirituality miracles overcoming never
giving up fighting fighting fighting or
write a book I wrote a book you got I
just got to pray about when I want to
release it I wrote our epic now is the
kill time I kept a journal I guess oh
good girl
don’t y’all think it’s a good time
procrastinator but you kept a journal
for the past few years I wrote every day
for two years straight I accidentally
wrote a book and discovered there’s
another thing no seriously I’m a really
good writer yeah
so you discovered that but your point is
you discovered that over two years
I’m just being diligent cuz I didn’t
just journal privately I have I keep a
blog and I write on Facebook and I’ve
been literally counseling and
ministering to people on Facebook and I
know because they inbox me and say girl
I never told anybody it is but I was I
was in that too and you know what you
gave me permission to let me know that
it’s not it wasn’t me that was somebody
else’s dysfunction that wasn’t me you
gave me permission because another
intelligent woman another woman who
cares herself well who’s attractive and
it happened to you so it must not be
something wrong with me yeah you know so
I’m giving people permission and you
know it’s very interesting that you say
that that it must not be something that
they thought it was something wrong with
them that brought the problems with
money exactly and that’s interesting you
say that because people do look at you
you are not the stereotype if there is
one that we have in our mind of a woman
that would be in this kind of position
you are educated you’re ambitious you’re
stable it’s not like you were in a
position of poverty where you needed a
man to take care of you and pull you out
of some certain scenario you were doing
alright and so so what do you think that
there is a stereotype a profile of a
woman who might be find herself in an
abusive situation or do you think we
need to clear all those stereotypes out
of our mind because it just looks like
it looks depending it affects every
woman from every walk of life there is a
there is a mirror
there is some where being abused right
now it happens to a woman every 15
seconds and it’s not just a particular
culture or social economic background or
anything and it happens to me and one in
seven minute you’re saying seven men
because you helped yes because you have
same-sex relationships and you also have
women who abused me and people think I’m
crazy when I tell them that one in seven
men are abused one in four women and
those numbers are conservative you know
why because men don’t report abuse right
they don’t report it what I would like
for people to as a society would be
great if we stopped placing all the
blame and judgment on the victims and
stop asking the question well why does
she stay why does she stay why does she
stay you would really have to study the
cycle of abuse to understand why people
stay and even look at my situation which
is not the classic story of domestic
violence I thought I had control of this
situation you know I know he’s a little
controlling a little possessive you know
but you still felt like I got a help I
got a handle well Nancy want to leave
you know he’s no yeah it escalated and
changed my life forever yeah and it does
doesn’t it challenges your life and that
is the reason why I don’t focus on just
helping victims or survivors I’m like no
how do we stop this from happening
period yeah
prevention how do we stop this from
happening period well we’re going to
talk about that because Christie has a
foundation now she is looking forward
she’s looking to help others as best she
can and so we bet be back in just a
second to talk more about that thank you
if you’re feeling discouraged and
defeated if you’re a bit overwhelmed or
maybe even feeling undone if you’re
wondering whether or not your future has
any hope of victory then listen this
Bible study is for you
strongholds are torn down while the Word
of God fortresses are dismantled by the
Word of God when you place faith in
Jesus Christ the righteousness of Christ
is credited to your spiritual bank
account that you are the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus I invite you to
join me for a lesson in putting on the
whole armor of God our lives are going
to be paying yours and mine because
we’re going to learn and we’ve got the
victory in Jesus name Jesse James has
been with us being so vulnerable and
open and brave and honest sharing with
us so much of her life we’re so grateful
to you for being willing to do that and
sit with us today I want to talk to you
about your future I want to talk to you
about the foundation about what your
hopes are looking forward but before we
get to that I want to talk more about
this this all the stuff in you that the
acid did not touch I want to talk about
where it came from how you got it and
for a woman that’s thinking tragedy has
happened to me in some area of my life
I’ve lost something that to me made me
beautiful
how does she tap into all of these
characteristics and traits that are
going to keep her strong and steady and
balanced like you are stable despite the
chaos that has happened in your life how
do you find beauty somewhere else when
what you thought it was in is gone how’d
you do that like practical ways you were
able to implement this in your life when
you were forced inside inside of
yourself when you are forced to be
introspective when you are forced to be
in prayer and isolation the way that I
was forced into it I couldn’t go outside
in public
for a whole year when you are forced to
lean solely and utterly on God because
you can’t even see what’s going to
happen the next day and you’re operating
on nothing but faith you spent a lot of
time on the inside and so he took my
outside and in him taking my outside
think about it I could add a neat makeup
they took my hair I didn’t have hair so
I didn’t need hot curlers I couldn’t go
anywhere so I didn’t need my high-heeled
shoes that I loved so much so when you
were forced and somebody has taken all
of your exterior all of those things on
the outside you have no choice but to
hone in on those things on the inside
and so it’s almost like I just been a
bit I always had those things but also
also had this beauty too and so there
was a balance but but I lost all of that
outside stuff and so now everything that
I am right now is focusing on its inside
and what it’s doing and what people tell
me is that stuff on the inside he was
making you more beautiful on the outside
because it’s shining through that’s true
it’s shining through and I think the
problem though is the problem is when
all the outside stuff is taken away and
you look inward and find out there is
nothing of value there exact that you
have stored up there’s no character
there’s nothing to keep you stable at
your core right so if you haven’t spent
you obviously
maybe it’s your mama we had the way she
raised you or its disciplines that you
already had a place in your life that
that made you the woman that you are
regardless see you had something to turn
inward to I do what about the woman who
who doesn’t and she’s just discovering
that yeah that you don’t want to figure
yourself out during this process see the
beauty of it is as I was preparing to
become a counselor I went through
counseling and I went through a whole
self-awareness about a five-year
self-awareness thing that’s how I was
able to see this guy more clearly so you
know you can’t see anybody else clearly
until you know who you are and so as I
became more aware of me even while I was
in that relationship like I discovered
over the course of time that you know I
didn’t grow with my father in my like
that throughout my relationships I was
looking for my father in my
relationships and so I was attracting
controlling man because I was looking
for my daddy
my daddy who was always there but not in
the house with me and so I didn’t feel
that safety that you’re supposed to feel
as a little girl and so I subconsciously
looked for it in men and once I was able
to figure that out you know I was able
to discover why I make choices why I do
this why I do that and then that what
that’s why I was part of the reason why
I was like you know what this is not for
me I was discovering who I was and it
made me see other things around me more
clearly and so when this happened by
God’s grace and mercy I had already done
the stuff work I’d already worked on the
inside of me you know now nothing can
prepare you for this because there’s no
manual for somebody taking your entire
outer appearance but I truly believe
that if I had not done all that self
work if I had not discovered that you
know I am a good I’m a good person and
you know I am smart you know I went back
to graduate school at 40 years old I’m
the only one in my family that’s ever
done that
you know I don’t come from a family of
educated people higher educated people
and I did it while working and raising
kids
you know and so I discovered that no
matter what I look like through this
process I’m okay I’m going to be okay
yeah and you are Emma where do you find
that this attention to your core to who
you really are your values your morals
your character the strength of things
that you discovered and and went on
discovery to really hone and refine in
your life do you think that doing that
as a woman or man that doing that is
what helps you to steer clear of
situations like this to begin with yes
yes I think that ultimately let me put
it this way I will say this the things
that made me stay in this relationship
longer than I should have with things
that made me a good counselor
I am objective and non-judgmental I was
trained to be that way to counsel other
people to not judge them but there’s
some people unlike we need to be judging
really really harshly you know I’m
saying even if you’re not judging you
can you cannot pass judgment but still
make a wise choice for yourself yeah but
you know
ultimately I you know I’ve been asked a
question well what is your part in is
what do you feel guilty about I don’t
have any guilt
what I feel is responsibility I don’t
have any guilt because I feel like I’ve
been through enough why would I put that
on myself I know I mean I’ve been
through and I don’t you think I’ve been
through enough yeah somebody got time
I’m not gonna let anybody make me feel
bad about me not even me but I cannot
move forward and hope to be in another
healthy relationship until I deal with
how I was in this situation and a
healthy relationship with your daughter
yes with your son with your mother not
just healthy you know remotion aliy
attached loving relationship just with
those people in your family right and so
what I have what I own this is what I
believe in owning your stuff this is his
stuff what he did to me that’s his stuff
I didn’t do anything to cause this but
what I own is I know I ignored the Holy
Spirit Holy Spirit told me he’s not the
one for you it yelled at me yelled at me
get away from this man he’s not the one
for you okay when at what point in your
relationship
in hindsight do you now know looking
back that should have been the time that
you walked away how early on was it well
you know you get several warnings before
destruction and I got about six months
before this happened
see I know I can see the warning signs
clearly about six months before this
happened this guy pushed me didn’t hit
me but push me and took my keys and kept
me from leaving that told me leaving him
is a problem you see what I’m saying he
wouldn’t let me leave I’ve had to stay
there with him the whole night I broke
up with him for a long time we ended up
getting back together I should not have
gotten back with him if I had not gotten
back with him that was the time right
why did you get back with him what what
in you caused you to look over what had
happened and go ahead and say I can I
can be connected to you again because I
looked at all of the other things that
he did like he you know the same guy
that showed that aggression is also the
same guy that
you know show me a lot of love also
unhealthy love because in retrospect it
really not Losey control looks a lot
like love sometimes it really does talk
about that right there for just a minute
wait one of the similarities when you
have a heart like mine when you are see
I look for love I look for people to
love I look for people to nurture it’s
just my Who I am you know I want to fix
you it make you okay you know you can’t
fix somebody else but when you’re
looking for love and the person is doing
stuff like calling you a million times a
day it feels a little bit like love it’s
really stalking it’s a tension right
it’s really stalking right you know to
me because it’s a tension and think
about a women complain all the time
about what men don’t do my man doesn’t
do this my man doesn’t do that he did
all of those things massages and flowers
and anything he could because he figured
out how to love he figured out mmm this
is what she needs I push these guys push
those buttons no because he decided you
think about it this is a pretty woman
she has a good job you know she carries
herself well she dresses well you know
she can have another man um because he
didn’t feel I guess good about himself
he saw in me things that he wanted and
once he made that decision he did what
he needed to do but it had nothing to do
with love what did your mom think about
him she didn’t like him nobody in my
family liked this guy do you think
number one is I okay number one sign it
there’s a problem kids didn’t like I’m
brother than like him now they didn’t
tell me my mother and my brother didn’t
tell me too after this man threw hats
remember we never liked a minute where
I’m like great thanks for telling me now
you know I’m down and out so your
foundation it the goal is to annihilate
this issue of domestic abuse how are you
going about doing that what do you hope
and purpose to do through your
foundation let me tell you this because
people think it’s impossible do you know
that domestic violence is one of the few
societal ills that can be eradicated it
can be you know why because it’s based
on human behavior
and behavior can be changed through
education awareness and prevention and
what I’ve decided to do we spend a lot
of time a lot of domestic violence
organizations I’m going to do both I’m
going to have a Resource Center for
women who’ve gone through it and help
them you know rebuild their lives and
you know financially all those types of
things grants and stuff but what I
figured out is I went from 0 to 100 and
it changed my life forever so do I
really want to wait until somebody’s in
the situation to help them I do I want
to stop it from happening to begin with
and the only way to do that is to go way
back the highest rate of domestic
violence happens between the ages of 16
and 24 so what I’ve decided to do with
my foundation and what I’ve been doing
for the past two years as I go around at
colleges I’ve been at probably 10
colleges this month I go to high schools
and I basically tell my story I show
that it’s your full-time job is this
what you do right now with your life is
you’re in these high schools you’re in
these colleges this is your mission
right now it is yes right now it is
especially during domestic violence mom
I work non-stop during the message
violence mom but what I’m trying to do
is I’m trying to say you know what it
can happen to anybody
it can happen to anybody are you are you
having young ladies walk up to you
afterwards oh yeah
I have 11 schools counseling sessions
after my talks they always turn into
counseling sessions the beautiful thing
is I’m a professional counselor Yeah
right but you have you know young girls
in high school that are coming to tell
you about my beauty and intuition about
little boys and insulting meet how they
pull on them and they’re grabbing them
and they’re going through their phones
all those things that I was experiencing
in my 40s you know and so I let them
know you know and I’m not trying to
break out relationship I tell them so
much I’m telling you they’re gonna
that’s gonna lead to somebody throwing
acid in your face I just want you to be
equipped with knowledge knowledge that
does that’s not what a healthy
relationship looks like yes that’s not
what it looks like and sometimes you can
end up and you don’t even know how you
got there right because nobody no abuser
walks up and knocks you upside the head
they never do they’re always charming
and wonderful Oh
they groom you yes they make you love
and that’s in all sorts of abuse whether
it’s emotional abuse sexual abuse yeah a
lot of times it just as you saying it’s
not just someone assaulting you out of
the blue sometimes it happens that way
but a lot of times it’s someone that you
know and love and trust and that you’ve
allowed in because they have been so coy
and cunning and kind and you know what
like I said I will not change the way
that I love people I will love them too
the hand I’m committed and you know I
stick around a little bit like I’m
supposed to I’m just going to be more
mindful about who I give that love to
you know women we love we don’t function
the way that men do we love harder we
love longer we’re more forgiving and so
sometimes the way that we are as women
emotionally you know it gets us in these
situations you know and so I won’t
apologize for the kind of heart that I
have I’ll just be I’ll just be smarter
next time so you’re open to another
relationship oh I’m going to get married
again do still dig me they still like me
they still like me the good ones see
they see way beyond the scars and what
are you gonna do about your hesitation
to forgive how are you going to walk out
forgiveness so that your heart can be
healthy and hold to move on you know the
thing about it is it’s not it doesn’t
weigh heavy on my heart because I know
I’m going to forgive him I know I’m
gonna stopping you from saying you know
what today I’m gonna start walking I’m
going to forgive and start walking down
that road you know what’s stopping me um
I’m not ready and nobody said on that
floor is he burned me alive but me and
so that’s why I’m kind to me
and nobody can want nobody this is my
journey and God knows my heart and he
knows that I have no bitterness and no
hate in my heart and he knows he already
God already knows I’m gonna forgive this
man and it has nothing to do with him
having remorse cuz he doesn’t have any
remorse has nothing to do with him I’m
telling everyone else no it’s you I
didn’t see any remorse in the sky
whatsoever none
um that’s a whole nother episode right
there but so when he spoke at the trial
and said he was sorry we’re Salem or it
was just words does some pathology going
on here I don’t know but anyway mm-hmm
it takes a special kind of person to not
just douse somebody with sulfuric acid
but sit and watch it burn off their burn
off their skin that’s a special kind of
person when there was no argument and
this I did nothing but care about this
person I just want to break up is it
that was my crime takes a special kind
of person to do something like this so
I’m going to forgive this guy but I
don’t lash myself or beat myself because
I have it because I know it’s going to
happen in my own time because it’s my
journey but in a sense you have released
him from the dead about this guy exactly
and that’s very clear because you
wouldn’t be able to sit here and speak
with such a heart of gratitude and
generosity and caring of others that are
around you if you were holding on
tightly to what he did and constantly
thinking about him I think that’s what
we don’t understand is that the more
attention you give to the person that
you are and with her hate the bigger
their image grows in your mind they
completely consumed and that is why I
don’t hate him the true opposite of love
is not hate it is indifference I have
been different mm-hmm I am indifferent
you know I don’t hate him it would
require too much of me
that that energy that it would take to
hate this guy I can be using it to love
10,000 other people it’s a wrong it
takes up the same amount of energy it’s
not gonna give it to him he didn’t
deserve that so what would you say to a
woman that right now you know she’s
she’s watching this or a man watched
this and they’re still not quite sure if
what they’re in they’re feeling a little
inkling that what the relationship
they’re in might be what you’re
describing what would you say are the
top three things that if you see these
things two or three things if you you
catch sight of these things in the next
24 hours or you’ve seen them in the past
week then you need to get to safety
number one if somebody puts their hands
on your period even one time they’re
going to do it again they don’t do it
again okay matter how many times they
tell you they’re not they’re going to do
it again okay because if it’s even a
part of their psyche to put their hands
on you’re going to do it again verbal
abuse put it put downs people
love you don’t put you down they don’t
do that emotional abuse something that
nobody ever thinks about anytime a man
wants to marry you immediately this guy
wanted to marry me immediately anytime
they want to attach to you and commit to
you way before societal norms that’s a
sign of abuse that’s the sound of
somebody wanted to control you very very
fast because he wanted me to marry him
and quit my job mm-hmm so he get to have
total control of me yeah yeah that’s a
sign the big thing is you know you know
you need to leave if somebody threatens
you and says I’m going to kill you if
you leave me the amount times out of ten
will hmm they will you know well I think
that your your fervor your passion your
fire and you know your your focus like
you’re so focused now on your passion
for helping people get to safety and to
not have to experience what you did in
the fact that you’re willing to be so
open and vulnerable with your store
we’re all grateful because we feel like
we’ve been in a counseling session thank
you and even if someone is not
specifically in the situation that
you’re describing still there’s so much
health that you have brought to our
hearts and to our minds so that we can
all be whole and healthy no matter what
we’ve been through in our lives and
we’re grateful for that thank you for
having me we’re great
would you please help me to welcome
crispy skins for boon
you