Welcome to About Progress. I am your host Monica Packer and I am here to teach you how to take back your life and dare to progress towards bettering yourself, honing your gifts, and using them for good in the world.

Listen in to be inspired by others who are walking the same path of self-improvement paired with self-love,

and to be a part of a community that knows life is about progress, not perfection.

I have been through my fair share of things where I isolated myself from others. I mean obviously with my eating disorders I kept that secret for a long time I've been on a few

interviews lately for other podcasts that I'll be sharing in the near future

where they say oh I'm so glad you're open about that. But the honest part of that is I never was open about it until recent years.

Along with other issues I face including things with my children

or my face struggles I've had, I tend to draw inward and to not reach

out to others.

Now I know many of you are like that too, maybe that's your natural inclination to isolate

yourself from others when you are struggling with something hard,

but other times that decision to depend on others is out of your hands.

Perhaps the trials you are facing might be due to others choices in your life or maybe there's a whole

number of reasons why you can't personally confide in others or make your

trials more public so others can help you. My guest today is a therapist named Aaron Sheppard of

Yerotherapy. She is here to talk about those of you who do struggle in silence.

Whether it's by choice or not, she has an important message of how you can work through this.

Now, she does have some advice about how to depend on others when you are able to and how to get out of the shame-driven isolation that I

tended to put myself in but for those of you who are doing this more out of

not having a choice she has some really especially helpful things

for you to hear today.

I'm so grateful Erin would be on the show.

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