Hello and welcome to the Mark Grove's podcast.

Excited to share with you this week where I answer three questions of yours that are really actually very powerful questions. They allowed me to go pretty deep into

many patterns and layers. It was actually a lot of fun to explore. As I've mentioned time and time again,

our relational patterns are really just magnifying glasses to general patterns, general ways we

self-abandoned or people-please or distance ourselves or

whatever it might be. And this was a really fun episode to record and explore. I did it live on

YouTube so you can subscribe on there if you ever want to catch them live. And before I get into the

episode, I wanted to share an insight that was reflected to me.

You know, I laid some pretty nice boundaries on my Instagram a couple weeks ago, saying that

I'm often told, like, stay in your own lane, stay in relationships.

And I got to tell you, as I've said on the podcast before, I'm like, this is my channel.

This is my expression.

If you don't like it, that's totally fine.

I'm not for everybody.

And I realize that I'm healing.

I've healed and continued to heal codependency on a relational level, me with any other human, not just romantic, but if you're

codependent and romantic relationships, you'll have codependency everywhere. It'll just masquerade

as poor boundary is self-sabotage, other things, and not being able to keep your word to yourself.

I mean, it's lots of stuff, self-abandonment, to please parents, to not doing a job that you actually want to do, not pursuing those, your passions, not believing that your worth and your values and what matters to you is even worth pursuing.

You know, all of these are ways that we are taught that our intrinsic awareness or intrinsic wisdom

is somehow second place to living a normal life, quote unquote, or one that, you know,

keeping up with the Joneses or whatever it is.

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