Am I Broken: Survivor Stories

S1Ep13 Tomi - "It Felt Hopeless"

Papillon DeBoer Season 1 Episode 13

Tomi shares his journey through flashbacks of incest perpetrated by his mother, and additional sexual abuse incidents outside the home. He describes his struggles with substance abuse and the healing and growth he found through Alcoholics Anonymous, and then Adult Children of Alcoholics. Tomi now understands that he was not born rotten, but that he has trauma symptoms that were a product of sexual abuse.