The wound is not my fault, but the healing is my responsibility. My name is

Andrea and this is a little child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what you're holding on.

What you're holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

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

Ahoy my dear shit shows.

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea.

I have a cold, so I sound a little bit different than normal.

I am a total shit show, I am a recovering alcoholic, and I'm an adult child, which I figured out, I guess it's been about eight years now. And so this is a podcast where we talk about what it means to be an

adult child of an alcoholic or dysfunctional family and that there is absolutely nothing

shameful or embarrassing about that.

There are millions of us out there.

So welcome aboard this hot mess of a ship.

You're in the right place. So today, we are diving deep with friend of the

pop, pund the pub, friend of the pod, Barb Nangle, so Barb has, I guess this may be her third or fourth appearance.

Barb is a Boundaries Coach, she is a fellow shit show and she actually facilitates a monthly workshop within the shit show community.

So every third Monday of the month, Barb host an hour long workshop on various topics.

So, so far we've had, the one she just did this last week was change your perspective cultivating an attitude of gratitude.

She did one called feelings, emotional sobriety, and boundaries.

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