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I gained my freedom...I gained my right to be Yvonne.

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EMDR really helped me
believe in myself again.

I remember in one session my
therapist asked me if there's

like anything that I wanted
to do that I was still

carrying and it was really just a scream.

Like I wanted to scream, I wanted to yell,

I wanted to like let go.

Let this pain you know
separate itself from my body.

And she gave me permission like in the,

in her office, like to scream.

But I couldn't get it out
right there but one day

you know out of nowhere
this scream came up out

of the bowels of my body.

(yelling)

And it really like was a
release of all the hurt

and the pain but at the same
time it helped me reclaim

who I was as a woman, as
a soldier, as a sister.

You know, as a daughter, as a mother.

I released all of that built up tension.

And at the same time I gained myself.

I gained my freedom, I
gained my right to exist.

I gained my right to be you know Yvonne.

Yeah.

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