When you physically have a health condition that depletes your energy, it's not possible to out hustle an illness, so you can't brute force your way through everything.

But as a psychotherapist, I found out that I could outsmarted. I could outsmart my psychology, my mindset.

Welcome to the Inner Child podcast. Now with two million downloads, I help high achievers recover from painful relationships

and childhood trauma.

Let's heal together on season two of the Inner Child Podcast.

Welcome back to the Inner Child Podcast.

I am your host, award-winning therapist, Gloria Zhangang, and I want to say a wonderful, wonderful,

happy new year to all of my listeners, new and old.

This is the first episode of 2025 that I have been intending to put out, and I hope you all

had as great of a holiday as was humanly possible depending on your situation.

And in the spirit of moving forward to 2025, today we are going to talk about overcoming

an unfair life, which is something that I have heard over and over and over again from those of you

listening in. Coming into this healing world with this feeling that life has been so unjust

and how to cope with that, how to feel like things are still worth it, how to not feel so alone in this

world like all the odds are stacked up against you. I'm going to share a really valuable resource

called the five givens in life that was actually developed by David Rico, who is a psychotherapist

and author, five unavoidable givens in life that when used properly

can help you overcome these feelings of growing up in an unfair and unjust life. And part of

today's episode is, quite honestly, having a very frank and candid conversation with you besties about my health

and my health journey and my continuous health battles. I have not shared my actual diagnosis

and story. I've never talked about this on the internet. Only a few of my close friends know about this.

And the reason, well, there's a couple of reasons I haven't really shared it. Number one,

...