Sarah Bailey-Price and Angela Kwok

S shares her life story. S says her parents had a difficult marriage and separated when she was in middle school. She details the pressure she felt growing up in Christian America and how it affected her life. S says she later got pregnant and married but was in an abusive marriage. She says she was able to get out of the abusive relationship, moved back in with her mother, and graduated college. S talks about realizing that she might not be totally straight. She talks about meeting and making a life with her second husband. S says she is in an open marriage. S discloses that she’s been diagnosed with a cell disorder and says she received a hysterectomy recently.

A shares her life story. She says she was born in Michigan and grew up in a small rural farm town. A says this lifestyle was great because there was a strong sense of community. A says her family was a musical family. She says she went to college in Indiana to study piano and percussion. A says she got married and eventually started a career in special education. She adds that she and her husband moved to Oklahoma City and have five children. She talks about losing her first child at birth and recently her dad.

S talks about her background in music and education. She says she is not teaching now. S talks further about her hysterectomy procedure and PCOS. S reflects on the healthcare treatment she has received. S says she has found that people who have complex trauma also have complex health issues.

S and A discuss Oklahoma’s systems of healthcare. A says she realizes the healthcare system is a for-profit industry and she highlights the need for a streamlined process to access patients' records.

A shares that in March 2021, she was in a lot of pain that she recognized was not normal. She says it is still a big unknown and she has been frustrated with having to wait so long to see specialists and receive care.

S says during the last nine months or so, she quit teaching because she has come to the conclusion that all of the systems that she has spent her whole life depending on and trying to improve were so beyond her reach when she needed them. S says she quit, took a nine month sabbatical, and has been trying to learn how to take care of herself.

A says during the pandemic she has thought a lot about how people go about taking care of themselves. A reflects on her interactions with the mental health system in Oklahoma.

S says she signed up for One Small Step because she is always trying to figure things out and her biggest fear is that she’s seeing things from a limited perspective. A says she looks at things from a global perspective and she is always looking to see how she can use her perspective to help others.

S and A talk about their children.