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Thank you. Hello and welcome to Relationship Advice. My name is Koltar Bloxum, and I'm here with the two lovely and talented and intelligent therapists that are my friends, Lauren Mo Carey and Kayla

Bozovic. We are three licensed professional counselors and we run a therapy community here in

Phoenix, Arizona, called Thrive. In this podcast is an extension of so much of the work that we do

here centered around helping people better connect with their partners,

with their family members, with their friends, their coworkers.

And we believe that the secret sauce to connecting better with others is connecting better with yourself.

We can't be closer to someone than we are with ourselves.

In today's episode is all about the difference between comfort and caretaking and why that

matters.

We so often get into caretaking, which can be a good thing, but it can also be kind of this

parallel to enabling and this question of am I providing comfort to somebody, or am I just

taking care of something they need to learn how to do because I can't sit with the discomfort

of watching them not be able to do it or watching them in pain? Really enlightening conversation

for myself today. And I hope that it can be something that would be

helpful for you in understanding the difference between sitting with somebody and something

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