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My name is Andrea, and this is Adult Child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Yeah, yeah.

What you holding on to,

What you're holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

What's you got to do with your...

Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

And today we are diving deep into becoming our truest and highest selves.

Yes, finally, an uplifting topic for once.

We've made it, guys.

Now, if I were to easily sum up the core problem of an adult child, it would be the false self.

As kids growing up in dysfunctional families, we learned that it was not okay to be our authentic selves,

that it was not safe to be our authentic selves.

So a false self emerged, and we see clear evidence

of this false self through the laundry list and the common

characteristics of an adult child. Characteristics we took on in order to

survive, in order to be loved, accepted, in order to protect our true selves.

And while this false self served us well in childhood, in adulthood, it serves as a form of self-sapotage, and it prevents us from living a life of contentment and fulfillment that we are all fucking entitled to live.

So if I were to easily sum up the purpose of adult child recovery,

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