Healing is like peeling an onion. The final episode of this season is a story about love, although it's not a traditional love story. It's about love addiction, the fear of not being loved and the kind of love that can keep you alive. <br /> It's about a mother's love, facing your greatest fear and learning to love yourself through it all.<br /> <br /> Sara-Jayne shares her complex family background, the trauma of being abandoned and adopted at 7 weeks, and her struggles with addiction alongside her partner's relapse. <br /> <br /> Through it all Sara-Jayne Makwala-King emphasizes that the opposite of addiction is not soberity, but rather connection. <br /> <br /> SJ is a journalist and author and has written two books about her life story. 'Killing Karoline' and 'Mad, Bad Love'. Both are available online and in all good bookstores. <br /> <br /> QUOTES: <br /> 'My biggest fear had just happened, and yet I was the one that had told him to go. I’d facilitated that. So that was the quake—the worst thing in the world that could happen to me as I exist is happening, which is that I am a single parent, and it’s all on me.'<br /> 'You feel as if it must be personal, and it isn't. If somebody's not ready to get well from addiction, there's nothing you can do. I am powerless over another person in their addiction.'<br /> <br /> INSTAGRAM:<br /> https://www.instagram.com/seanloots<br /> https://www.instagram.com/thisissjking<br /> <br /> BOOKS: <br /> Killing Karoline: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/products/9781920601959<br /> Mad, Bad Love: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/products/9781990973567<br /> <br /> RECORDED AT LATITUDE PODCAST STUDIO:<br /> https://www.staylatitude.co.za/latitude-podcast-studio/ <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PGntgE4y6RG6wxTxUqgJI?si=CA9uGd2wRRaKQOpJ8-VrmQ">Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify</a>