Welcome back to Moot with Lauren Elizabeth.

I'm Lauren Elizabeth and today's episode is going to be a little bit different.

It is the episode you guys have all been waiting for. I feel like that's like a classic thing for

an influencer, someone to say, but it genuinely is because I feel like I can't even go on Instagram

without you guys asking about it. I do have a little bit of a cold, so I apologize that I sound

kind of like a little boy, but I swear it's me. This episode is something that I've definitely

been putting off for a while. And at first, it was intentional. And now I think it's definitely been,

I've had a really like tough just like few months, like since summer. So I guess it's been

quite a while now. But I've just already had so much anxiety and fear and stuff in my life that I

didn't feel like adding to the pain that I've already been experiencing by subjecting myself to

negativity from strangers. And I say strangers because I know it's not the people that are like

ride or die with me, get me, love me, the real mood, LE community. But people love drama, people

love clickbait, people love to have an opinion and hide behind a screen. We know this. It comes with

the territory. And so in order to protect my peace and myself, I wanted to be able to wait.

And I feel like now where I'm at my life is a much better place to be completely honest. You know,

I still obviously have a whole world of mood issues. I mean, it's me. Let's be honest. But I do

feel like I'm in a place where I've done every single like as much as I possibly can in order to

record this episode, whether it be literally just living life and experiencing things and figuring

things out by trial and error and confiding in people talking to my therapist every single Tuesday.

For the past five years now, but specifically about this for a while now and talking to the people

that have mentored me through this process and really sitting down with them and figuring out

what I want to say. Because usually I just get on here and I mean, I like to be real and I like

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