In this episode, I’m reading A Place Called Home, a deeply personal Substack essay about the long, brutal path that taught me home was never something I was going to find in a house, a city, or another person’s arms. From early childhood abuse and neglect to homelessness, instability, damaging relationships, and the repeated collapse of every place I hoped would finally feel safe, this is the story of what it took to understand that home is not something we stumble into. It is something we build.
This episode is about survival, grief, repetition, and rebuilding. It’s about the difference between shelter and safety. About the ways trauma teaches us to chase solidity outside ourselves. And about the slow, difficult, life-changing realization that the truest home is the one we create within our own nervous systems, boundaries, and self-trust.
