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Allison Holker

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The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

When you're doing those things and laughing about it and having so much fun and you're involving the children in on those kinds of conversations, to have him decide to make this really permanent decision to leave us was very confusing. there were no signs at that moment that we had seen. And I say at that moment because I had been with Steven for 13 years.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

When you're doing those things and laughing about it and having so much fun and you're involving the children in on those kinds of conversations, to have him decide to make this really permanent decision to leave us was very confusing. there were no signs at that moment that we had seen. And I say at that moment because I had been with Steven for 13 years.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

I started dating him when I was 22 years old and you know, all these little kinks that he had had that maybe I look back on now as maybe being signs of depression or maybe being signs that he had like really big lows happening in his life. At those moments, we kind of justified them because they had always been there. They weren't new things.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

I started dating him when I was 22 years old and you know, all these little kinks that he had had that maybe I look back on now as maybe being signs of depression or maybe being signs that he had like really big lows happening in his life. At those moments, we kind of justified them because they had always been there. They weren't new things.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And so it was very confusing when he made that decision because we were blindsided. There had never been discussions in our house or individually with me or him being in therapy where there was big discussions happening that he'd been questioning.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And so it was very confusing when he made that decision because we were blindsided. There had never been discussions in our house or individually with me or him being in therapy where there was big discussions happening that he'd been questioning.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

these kinds of choices for himself or been so low that he needed to be in therapy or been so low with our family that we needed family therapy or been so low with me that he might need couples therapy there there had been no discussions or lead up to any sort of low happening in our family household to ever have seen anything coming this way um And I didn't believe it at first.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

these kinds of choices for himself or been so low that he needed to be in therapy or been so low with our family that we needed family therapy or been so low with me that he might need couples therapy there there had been no discussions or lead up to any sort of low happening in our family household to ever have seen anything coming this way um And I didn't believe it at first.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

When the cops first told me what had happened, I did not believe them. I thought they had gotten the wrong person. And I was like, I was convinced that it was wrong. I was like, no, you guys don't understand. There's no possible way that this is my husband. and my kid's father. There's no way. I was like, you guys don't know him.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

When the cops first told me what had happened, I did not believe them. I thought they had gotten the wrong person. And I was like, I was convinced that it was wrong. I was like, no, you guys don't understand. There's no possible way that this is my husband. and my kid's father. There's no way. I was like, you guys don't know him.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And it took a lot to impact that he made that decision, especially after a lot of the knowledge that I've grown over the last couple of years from discussing this topic with therapists and with crisis leaders and crisis teams, explaining that what they've said to me is that unfortunately, when he talked about shame in himself,

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And it took a lot to impact that he made that decision, especially after a lot of the knowledge that I've grown over the last couple of years from discussing this topic with therapists and with crisis leaders and crisis teams, explaining that what they've said to me is that unfortunately, when he talked about shame in himself,

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

A lot of the shame he might've felt for himself was the hardest thing to learn is how sad he had been probably for so many years and covering it up that I also didn't know and couldn't have helped, that none of his family or friends knew that he was this low and couldn't have helped and that he was so sad and not willing to ask for help

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

A lot of the shame he might've felt for himself was the hardest thing to learn is how sad he had been probably for so many years and covering it up that I also didn't know and couldn't have helped, that none of his family or friends knew that he was this low and couldn't have helped and that he was so sad and not willing to ask for help

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And, um, to be a partner that you feel so like I, we had such a, I got such a beautiful relationship and one that was, I thought in enthralled with trust and love and joy. And no one has ever heard that from him ever.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

And, um, to be a partner that you feel so like I, we had such a, I got such a beautiful relationship and one that was, I thought in enthralled with trust and love and joy. And no one has ever heard that from him ever.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

You know, the people that were closest to Steven, we always actively talked, and he would in interviews himself, talk that he did have the two personalities. He was Steven to the closest around him, but then he also wore the face of tWitch. And being in entertainment, I've always heard about celebrities or artists wearing those faces.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

You know, the people that were closest to Steven, we always actively talked, and he would in interviews himself, talk that he did have the two personalities. He was Steven to the closest around him, but then he also wore the face of tWitch. And being in entertainment, I've always heard about celebrities or artists wearing those faces.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

You know, you hear about, I believe that Beyonce has one and she's like Salsa Fierce as well on the side. So you always hear about people that kind of take on these characters when they get on stage. And so I've never really seen it as anything, but wow, that's a really fun way of living your life.

The Jamie Kern Lima Show
Are You Hiding Behind Happy? Allison Holker Reveals All Pt 2:The Power of Sharing Your Struggles, Creating Community & Healing Together

You know, you hear about, I believe that Beyonce has one and she's like Salsa Fierce as well on the side. So you always hear about people that kind of take on these characters when they get on stage. And so I've never really seen it as anything, but wow, that's a really fun way of living your life.