I'm good at falling in love with people I can't have. My name is Andrea and this is

an old child. So. to just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, shichos. Welcome aboard.

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I realized that I didn't do it in the last episode and you probably were hoping that I was just going to let this one die.

I'm not, just letting you know that.

For any new listeners, I am an acquired taste. You're either going to be really into this

shit or not at all. I'm fully aware of that. So today we are diving deep

with returning guests who I have deemed Queen of Abandonment,

Psychotherapist author Susan Anderson, and thank God for this woman because she is one of the pioneers

that has done the work done the research to figure out how to help us damn shit shows.

You know, without people like her, we didn't stand a chance. So extremely, extremely grateful for her.

So I just started reading one of her other books,

Taming Your Outer Child,

Overcoming Self-Sabbatage, and healing from abandonment.

Now I'm going to let her talk about what the outer child is, but in essence, if you are familiar with the term in our teenager, it's pretty similar.

It is the reactive part of us inside.

It is the one that acts out. And so this could not be more relevant for me right now.

I was thinking about this today, how this podcast is a vessel for me to continue to

heal what's not healed. The self-doubt, the self-sabbatage, all that stuff and

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