{"id":24805,"date":"2023-04-29T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/?p=24805"},"modified":"2023-04-29T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:25:27","slug":"shannons-testimony-chrysalis-school-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/shannons-testimony-chrysalis-school-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon’s Testimony – Chrysalis School (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/span>

Shannon’s Chrysalis School Testimony<\/h1><\/span>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/span>

2001<\/h3><\/span>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

I went to boarding school after a wilderness program in Utah. They told my parents it was best because I was quote a troubled child and needed extensive help unquote. After surviving the wilderness program that made you march miles a day, varying more than I weighed and not getting to eat if I didn’t bust a dire with sticks, in got sent to Montana. I was never allowed to speak to my parents alone. When they visited it was made clear I’d get in trouble if I said anything negative and would loose privileged. There was a level system and I was on level 1 over a year because I have social anxiety and didn’t feel comfortable talking in groups settings. My room was on the top floor and I shared a bathroom with the owner. He’d go in there while I took showers and also make me sit in this lap in his office while we were talking. Made me very uncomfortable. If I did something quote wrong, I’d be sent out in the horse pasture in the cold Montana weather for hours. Or the garden in the heat without water allowed. If I also did something quote wrong, the owner wouldn’t talk to me , a firm of gaslighting and that has hurt me in past relationships BC I have anxiety and PTSD. Of someone doesn’t text me back, my mind would go from 0 to 20p and wonder what I did wrong. Finally when I told my father to please bring me home the owner wrote horrible letters, to schools I was applying to. They all denied me BC the owner said I was unstable and aggressive and had major mental issues. Reality, he was mad he wasn’t getting that tuition money and I tried to speak up. I had nite mares for years and still do about that. It truly impacted my life when I came home. I did not know how to be in a regular school or socialize, so I would at a young age drink to fill holes in my heart. I also noticed alot of people there were adopted…connection…maybe. I became a heroin addict and thankfully I’m sober almost 3.5years. Every breath into in Montana felt like knives stabbing my chest. I felt abandoned unloved and thrown away. I still get that way but thankfully with hard work and real therapy not what they called it at school, I’ve been working on those issues. I witnessed favorite and people being treated differently if the owner simply didn’t like the girl. I can only imagine how that felt. Any\u00a0 questions feel free to ask. Congratulations and keep going survivors. You are worth more than you may believe and are here for a reason that may not be revealed yet. You are not a screw up. It was a scam.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_lock":["1682817846:2"],"_edit_last":["2"],"_thumbnail_id":["24806"],"_fusion":["a:17:{s:25:\"show_first_featured_image\";s:2:\"no\";s:4:\"fimg\";a:2:{s:5:\"width\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"height\";s:0:\"\";}s:17:\"post_links_target\";s:2:\"no\";s:7:\"bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:17:\"slider_visibility\";s:51:\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\";s:12:\"main_padding\";a:2:{s:3:\"top\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"bottom\";s:0:\"\";}s:15:\"content_bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:20:\"image_rollover_icons\";s:7:\"default\";s:9:\"bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:35:\"container_hundred_percent_animation\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"slider_type\";s:2:\"no\";s:9:\"wooslider\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"blog_page_title_bar\";s:7:\"default\";s:17:\"content_bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:13:\"posts_sidebar\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:15:\"posts_sidebar_2\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:14:\"sidebar_sticky\";s:7:\"default\";}"],"fusion_builder_status":["active"],"elegant_typography":[""],"avada_post_views_count":["364"],"avada_today_post_views_count":["1"],"avada_post_views_count_today_date":["25-04-2024"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}