Hello there podcast pickles. It's your old pal Steven Hussey here just checking in before we start today's episode

And it's been a couple of days since we finished our final virtual retreat of the year

And we just had an incredible three days as a team our whole team have been buzzing off the event where feeling really

Satisfied and thrilled and exhausted also from those three days

But the way you all came and played full out that those of you who came and joined us

There was over a thousand of you

It was an amazing event and the three days were just truly special for those of us who got to enjoy them together

And I've heard from some of you in my DMs on Instagram who have told me how much fun and what profound transformations you had on the program

So thank you. Thank you to all of you who came who played full out who really went for it and

You know showed up for yourself to invest in yourself over those three days

It really means a lot to our team and we're just so proud of all the people who went through that process with us

So on with the show today

Matt gets quite deep into a meaty discussion of trauma and

Why trauma holds us back either in relationships and we get triggered in a relationship because of old wounds

And the way that can send us into a negative spiral in our communication with a partner or the way trauma can stop us getting into a

Relationship even in the first place because we have certain negative beliefs that we've inherited from our parents and

Lord knows what they did or taught us over the years or we just have certain trust issues where that trust has been broken before or

insecurities or whatever it might be and

And look we know these things are not easy to snap our fingers and change

But we talk about some of the ways we can start to

Unwind some of those beliefs and why it's just important to do the work of self-understanding of self-examination in this area so that we can

You know start that healing process because that's how we start to

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