Welcome to the Almost 30 Podcast. I'm Lindsay and I'm Krista and we're your hosts, guides and friends on this path.

Almost 30 is not about your age, it's about the feeling. All of us are almost something, seeking community and resources to support the rumblings of transformation within us.

Our conversations are deep dives, shepherded by our insatiable curiosity and desire for connection and during inspiration and a sense of levity that we can all benefit from.

We're looking to find the magic in the human experience. Buckle up baby, your evolution is waiting.

You are tuned into almost 30 podcast. What's happening? It's Lindsay and Krista, thanks for being here. This is your first time. Welcome. We've been doing this for about seven years now. We've been saying that for two years. Yeah, it changes. I just do what I wanted to be. People have been asking me my age lately and I'm lying. Isn't that crazy? Oh, that's crazy.

I'm like, I think I'm that bad. And I'm just like, whoa. But I'm not taking it too seriously. Just a lie that I'm telling.

I'm going back that later. I feel like in this day and age our age is actually cut like young. I don't. I don't feel anything. I just.

That's my business, not your business totally. I don't want you to know my business of my age. Yeah, I guess it's young. Yeah, we're very young.

Young, it's rightly. Yeah, one more 50. We're going to be like, yo, never.

Oh, 35. I'm 35. Krista's 20 28.

But I do think about when I was in my early 20s, I'm like, I was a child. I think about the fact that I thought that I would get married to 26.

And I'm like, you're a child bride. You were a child bride. 100%. But that's what our parents did. Our parents. No shade. If you got married to the love of your life when you were 26.

Peace and blessings. I was not mature enough to have done that. Oh, no. And I wasn't like who I was attracted to was not made material. Yeah, that's a good point.

You know, it was very good point. It was like a match for where I was at. So if you did find your match at that age, I'm actually impressed with where you were at.

I think to what that age, I was looking for more of the spark. I appreciate the men that I was with. But yeah, I was very much looking for the spark in chemistry and number one over anything.

Do you feel like it was co-dependent spark of like what's the word trauma bonding? I've been thinking about that. And we talked a little bit about this yesterday.

But I've been thinking about the trauma bonding spark. And I'm like, you know, the trauma bonding spark is also very important to because for me, the trauma bonding spark has provided really important,

important, Carmichael lessons, yes, and information and things that I needed to go through for sure. So if I was aware enough, I could have maybe seen that and been like, I see a trauma spark.

And then done my own work or searching, but I'm really grateful for that magnetism of that because it really brought me through some things that I really needed that relationship to co-create to see within myself for sure. I mean, it's essential. I think a lot of us shame our early relationships.

Like, oh, God, that was such a dumpster fire. And it's like, that was exactly what we needed to experience the contrast that we needed to experience in order to know ourselves better and also know what we really deserve.

And yeah, up level in that way.

Bring back trauma bonding. Bring back trauma bonding. Make trauma bonding cool again.

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