Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we were capable of change.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm right.

Yeah, what you're holding on the way.

What you 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.

Hey-ho shit shows.

How's it going?

Today we are diving deep with a fellow shit show and one of my favorite podcast hosts Aaron Martin so she is the

host of the podcast Pink Shade it's a reality TV recap podcast and you all know I'm a reality TV junkie so I had heard her talk about

that she had been raised in a cult and she had also made a few comments in some episodes about

Alanon or could tell that she had some familiarity with kind of the recovery world

so I reached out to her and asked her if she'd be on and she agreed and then it was like right after that she just went dark and she wasn't hosting the podcast she was taking a break from the podcast and her co-host was just doing it and

based off what her co-host was saying I can't remember exactly what it was but you know

mental health issues I just knew in my gut I was like she had some

repressed trauma come to the surface I just knew it and yeah that's exactly what happened so I'm glad we waited a year

because we have a lot more content to work with so but before that I've been thinking about whether or not I want to bring this up. I prayed and meditated and I decided that I do. So prior to me recording with Aaron, we talking about I don't really know how it came up but I was

talking to her about how she deals with um haters like online because if you don't know the reality TV like fandom like,

if you don't know, the reality TV like fandom world is rather

fucking vicious.

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