This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I'm your host Terry Cole.

Really excited, happy, grateful that you decided to spend a little bit of time with me today.

Many of you guys have been writing in and telling me that you would like me to do more Terry talks,

not necessarily less interviews, but maybe a little bit more time talking

about different issues or exploring different issues. And so I hear you, so thanks

for caring and thanks for writing in. So today Terry is talking about your ego

Shall we do you want to I do we're to talk about how easily you are offended. So I want to ask you to like

right now whatever you're doing, I mean unless you're driving, take a nice deep breath, in through your nose and out through your nose well I guess if you're

driving you could breathe in through your nose but I was going to say close your

eyes but do not do that if you are driving if you're not take a nice deep breath, close your eyes, relax your

shoulders, relax your body, and just give yourself a chance to be present to this

conversation that I'm basically having with you directly

because it's just you and me today. The reason I'm talking about this, the reason I care

about this as a psychotherapist is that I see the way that clients of mine and in my own life and I'll share some

examples when we are easily offended it really robs us of joy. There's something about being so vulnerable to what other

people say, reading into what other people say.

There's this great quote by Abraham Lincoln that goes,

we should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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