being able to help other people with our trauma and our pain, and I am speaking from personal experience, I don't think is a healthy way to live.

I don't think that it ends anywhere good to process and walk through those things and let other people into the deepest parts of

your pain. And I didn't know that when I started this journey. Now, I don't know if I would be

where I am. I don't know if I'd be where I am as a storyteller or a writer or with the show or any

of that. If I hadn't talked about all these things that I have gone through.

But in retrospect, had I known how much that would open me up,

had I known, like, energetically what that would call in,

had I known that I would unintentionally start to draw more negative things in because I was talking about

trauma so much. Like, you really have to be careful. The words you speak become the reality

you live inside of.

Hey guys, it's Rach. Welcome to the show. I'm so glad that you're here with us today. And I have a favor, which sounds kind of harsh if we just met, but I'm assuming that most of you have been a part of this community for a hot minute. And so I got to ask, are you subscribed to the podcast?

Subscribing to the podcast you listen to regularly is one of the best things that you can do for hosts like me.

It helps to support the show and the staff that works on it.

It ensures that you never miss an episode when we drop a new one.

And here's a cool thing about subscribing. If you do it, and then you hate this show, just unsubscribe. It's one click away. In the meantime, if you're listening,

we would so appreciate it if you would differently because producer Jack and I are in a fancy studio and we have a fancy setup

which means you guys can hear his voice like i'm always talking to jack but only last week did it

occur to us that we could actually record what he was saying and i thought it would be fun if we started this episode with a little bit of banter. So if you guys like this banter and Ask

Rach, will you let us know when you call into the hotline? Jack, how are you? I'm doing great.

Good, good. I am limping across the finish line of the school year. I am I am limping. We have one kid done with school,

two kids done with school, but now one of them's on a senior retreat. So Jackson on a senior

retreat, but finished with high school. Ford finished with middle school, but also has a

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