Listening to her story, this thought sounds completely different. Not because the pain experienced could be called a life lesson, or childhood wounds a gift. Kristina consciously avoids the victim role and does not want her story to be understood as a tale about a person who had it harder than others.
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Rather, it is a story about how many years it can take before you dare to turn to what you have long been running from.
“I really don’t want to be in the victim position. Sometimes, when I tell my closest people: ‘Here, it was like this, here was such an episode,’ – they look at me with horrified eyes, and I smile. Having gone through it all, I see it differently now. I even write in the book that I tell it with a smile because I think people won’t be so scared to hear it all,” she says.
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She does not hide that she long did not understand why she should speak publicly about her childhood at all: “I have been active for more than 7 years, I am releasing my second book, and somehow I always thought – why tell about it? But one day another thought came. I remember sitting and thinking: what kind of example and inspiration can I be if they don’t know about me? If people don’t understand at what cost I achieved everything I have and who I am now?”
This understanding was a turning point.
