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Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode, Shaymus Edwards opens up about a childhood marked by rejection, feeling passed between family members, unseen, unsafe, and disconnected. Those early wounds followed him into adulthood, where unresolved trauma led him down the path of meth addiction, poor decisions, and nearly losing everything that mattered most. As a father living in Australia, Shaymus reached a turning point that changed the course of his life forever. What followed wasn't ju...
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