Our guest today is Stacy Kay Syphers from Colorado.
Originally from Indiana Stacy was a cheerleader in the 80s drinking boons farm, that was her first experience with drinking in high school. Around the same time, she was also starting to have an eating disorder. She wanted to leave her small town to see the world, so she joined the military. She is 100% service-connected disabled through the VA.
When she left at 18 and came to Colorado, the state then had the grandfather clause which allowed adults to drink at 18. She then started being a bartender and doing cocaine to stay skinny, she was also on mental health meds stemming from the military. Stacy was then in rehab for the first time back in Indiana where she met the man who gave her 2 more kids, she had her first baby in the military.
She has Kennedy, Kerrigan and Nichole. Nichole will be a psychologist; Kennedy is a cancer survivor with a titanium rib cage. Kerrigan who just got married and is now a massage therapist. Stacy is very blessed and proud to have such wonderful kids. After her failed marriage they moved back to Colorado, and she was sober for 13 years. She had lost her mama and father to Cancer in the same amount of time she was getting Kennedy through her Cancer treatment. Through all of this she stayed sober, but she was never loving herself and giving herself attention that we need as humans. She relapsed off a glass of wine and found herself almost committing suicide soon after.
She relapsed right when the world shut down for COVID so rehab and recovery was SUPER challenging because she couldn't do any in person work with friends and people in these programs.
Being a woman and a Ex vet from the military there is a sense of pride they have. "People can have PTSD for many different reasons." Her current husband David is somebody she went to high school with and now they have been together 17 years. And she loves him for assisting her through her addiction. She knows what she had to do, and it takes self-worth. You have to be the one who wants change. Mental illness is real please reach out and get help. There are resources for every situation and if there isn't we will help you find where they are and put you in front of the right people who can help. Mental illness is a lifelong journey. Stay sober and stay in check. "We can be broken, and beautiful."
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