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The Chelsea Krost Show Guest, Kyllian Warman, Blog Post

When I met Kyllian Warman her spirit and perspective on life was motivating, inspirational, and heart wrenching all the same time. At a young age Kyllian has experienced many challenging life hurdles, which she chose to learn from and move forward instead of fall victim to the pain. Kyllian is a fighter and the epitome of a Millennial Motivator. I hope her story inspires you to pick yourself back up when life knocks you downs and always look at the glass half full. XO Chelsea

Kyllian Warman:

We have all heard the famous cliches like “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” or “only the strong survive” but the truth is that everyone is strong to their own extent. Depending on your life experiences and past is how you move forward in the future.
As I am sure many of you have had your own life experiences that make you the strong person you are today, I have also had my share of experiences that I would like to share with you, only to help you know you are never alone in your struggle. After a very difficult childhood growing up surrounded by alcoholics and addicts, I had learned to work extremely hard and that if I wanted to make something happen it was in my hands to do so. I worked every chance that I got and only looked on the bright side of things. I wish I could share some specific stories that made growing up a challenge but I’m sure I will get the chance to do that another time, just know that this experience I will share with you was not the only thing that had happened.
Abuse, sexual, emotional, physical, is more common then most people realize today. I sympathize and my heart goes out to all whom have experienced this. I can relate only because unfortunately this was an experience I have lived through in my lifetime.
I wont drag it out with details or memories because truly there is not much I do or want to remember. Long story short, the summer I was 16 I will never forget, I was at a party with my beach club friends, we had gone from a swim meet to hanging out on the beach to a friends house. Things were crazy and there were so many people there. Having a great time and just being with friends it had quickly turned bad. Next thing I knew I was pushed into a room, my long hair pulled and a knife against my throat. That is the last thing I remember and that is more than I can handle to remember. The next day I woke up in the arms of my friends and I will never forget their faces, covered in tears dripping on me and trying to help me to my feet and get me together. Eventually I did get it together. Using my past struggles to remind myself i could make it through, and that I would be okay. Needless to say they never found the guy who did this to me even after months of
investigating. It got to be too hard on me and I decided I had let it take up too much time in my life and it was no longer worth it and I called it off. I moved on and used the experience to move forward and continue to drive me. Soon after while My father had been battling cancer but lost his battle when I graduated high school this past June. You could say I chose to ignore what happened or simply forgot about it, being I didn’t tell anyone, not one boyfriend, not my parents, nor friends or teammates. Not until recently did I decide to share and spill to tell my saving grace, best friend and recent ex boyfriend I had for 6 months. I was petrified to share this with him but to my surprise he held me and said he was there for me always and forever plus one and I will truly never forget this moment.
Today I have used the experience as motivation to help prevent this for any other human being. Although my hurdle is trying to get over flashbacks even after two years, I am working on it and it isn’t easy. Just remember that you are not alone, and that this nightmare that you have lived through, I am telling you will make you a stronger person. My personal way of coping was exercise and running. I started to run marathons and challenged myself to 2012 miles in one year and just completed this! Finishing it made me feel empowered and just felt like turning around to the terrible guy who did this to me and saying ” Ha! look what I did and you did’nt stop me!” Find your coping, find love, find hope, find empowerment, but know that you don’t have to look for strength because you already have it.

Be Resilient
xo,
Kyllian

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