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For most of her life, Kristin Tierney lived a lie.  So convincingly, even she wasn’t sure where the lies stopped and the truth began.  She often wondered whether she was just a really good actress or an exceptional fraud.  Regardless, on the surface, it appeared as if she had it all.  But, at some point, living inauthentically caught up with her.  And when it did, the impact blew apart her seemingly perfect world.

After years of relying on cocaine to achieve detachment from her feelings and avoid addressing her internal struggles and insecurities, she recklessly upped the ante when she picked up a crack pipe in September of 2002. It would take less than six months from that first hit, for her life to spiral out of control. And it would be seven years before she could put that pipe back down.  Over the course of those next seven years, she hit one bottom after another.  Each one taking her to new depths of darkness and despair.  There was homelessness.  Incarceration.  Prostitution.  And loss.  She was dying a slow death - physically, emotionally and psychologically.

Change finally came in October of 2009, when she embraced the strength and courage necessary to reclaim her life from addiction.  Little by little, as she put her life back together, her recovery evolved into an epic journey of self-discovery and spiritual resurrection.  In doing the work of healing her emotional wounds, she addressed, deconstructed and reconciled unprocessed childhood trauma.  And through that process embraced all her vulnerabilities and imperfections, and realized that some of those very things are what make her beautiful – not physical beauty that can only be appreciated on the surface but an inner beauty reflecting the image from which she was created.

Her story is a testament to fact: regardless of one’s particular experience, and despite feelings of profound hopelessness, there is always an individual path leading a way out.  The depiction of her journey from darkness into light is a glorious illustration of accountability and authenticity.  Faith and forgiveness.  Grace and gratitude.

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