Hey there, welcome to Going Scared. I'm Jessica Honecker, founder of the World Changing

Brand Noonday Collection and I am so glad to have you here for today's conversation.

Our Going Scared community gathers here every week for direct and honest conversations

that help you live a life of courage by leaving comfort and going scared.

Well, welcome back to Know Thyself. The short 30 minute conversations are going to give

you the ability to step out of your own experience, observe your feelings and with compassionate

curiosity, choose how to respond instead of being a reactor, which I do a lot, a lot,

a lot. And I am super excited about today's guess because her book Boundaries for Your

Soul has guided me over the last probably 15 months now. Alison Cook. Alison Cook is a

psychologist, speaker and the co-author of Boundaries for Your Soul, how to turn your

overwhelming thoughts and feelings into your greatest allies. I have love getting

to know her on Instagram. She answers questions from her followers on a regular basis on all

things mental health and has just a really engaging and very, very encouraging feed. So

I'd encourage you to go give her a follow over there. Today we are talking about a framework

that her book is based off of and it's been an extremely helpful framework for me.

It's called internal family systems. In fact, I was unknowingly using this psychological

framework when I named the Mean Girls in My Head, the itty bitty, the Lonely Sauce Committee,

which you guys will recognize if you have read in perfect courage. I love this conversation

with Alison where we introduce you to a framework you might not have heard of before but is

one of the most helpful frameworks that I have discovered. So I can't wait for you to join

in as we learn about how to have boundaries for your soul.

Y'all, I have such a thing for therapists. Alison, I am bursting. I am so excited about

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