Shame corrods the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

What's making you slow now? Welcome back to the impact of growing up in a How's it going? 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 Al-Anon 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 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 were talking about, I don't really know how it came up,

but I was talking to her about how she deals with haters, like online, because if you

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