“At the exact moment in which my emotions would begin to settle and the fog of depression would seemingly lift, another surgery would knock me back down. My last major surgery had been no different. The nightmares and flashbacks came roaring back, reigniting the questions over what might have been. Angry and confused, I failed to see the impending danger lurking just around the corner.”

~ Samuel Moore-Sobel

Shaneequa shares her story of how much her identity was tied to the approval of her parents and her life plan and after that came into question again and again, how she fell apart.