This episode of Not Your F’n Therapist goes deeper than most people ever allow themselves to go. Our guest shares a lifetime’s worth of pain, survival, and resilience — beginning with growing up in a home shaped by addiction, instability, and strict religious expectations. What follows is a brutally honest journey through childhood chaos, early exposure to drugs, and using IV substances by age 13.

Tori has already survived more than most people face in a lifetime — including 11 overdoses, several near-death experiences, and the breaking point that finally led them to sobriety. But recovery wasn’t the end of the story. This conversation unpacks the realities of bipolar disorder, the devastating year-long mental health spiral that nearly ended their life, the medication battles, the psych episodes, the isolation, and the terrifying moments of wanting everything to just stop.

And yet — there’s hope. Real hope.

Through community, treatment, family, and their own relentless fight to stay alive for their daughter, our guest rebuilt their life from the inside out. We explore recovery, relapse, parenthood, faith, identity, sexuality, trauma, shame, and what it means to start again when your past keeps trying to pull you under.

This episode is raw, emotional, unfiltered, and deeply human. If you’ve ever questioned your worth, struggled with mental health, battled addiction, or loved someone who has — this conversation will stay with you long after it’s over.