You can’t pull others out of the fire if you’re still standing in the flames.

For years, Katy lived a double life: crushing PRs in the gym while being crushed by addiction. She was training for a war she was losing, trying to save the world while her own foundation was turning to ash. This is the raw account of the moment the weights got too heavy to ignore—the moment she realized that to be a lifeline for others, she first had to stop drowning herself.