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our reach. Thank you for daring to listen. Welcome back to the Bodies Behind the Bus

podcast. This is an at the bus stop episode and this one,

I'm excited about all of them, but this one I'm really excited about because it's going to be a two-parter

and I love two-part episodes. We are thrilled to have Emily Maynard on the podcast today. Emily is a licensed

psychotherapist in California. She is also a family

therapist as well. And she is EMDR certified, which I have tons of questions there.

She's going to walk us through a little bit about her work, why she got into that work, and just learn more about her life. She also has a really awesome PowerPoint that she sent us,

that we are some going to figure out how to get that incorporated into a future podcast episode

so we can go through it about religious trauma. So, Emily, welcome to the the podcast and thank you for joining us.

Hi. I'm so happy to be here today. Well, wonderful. I'm going to start off with a very,

very easy question because in our conversation, you talked about growing up and I'm being

sarcastic when I say it's easy. But you talked about growing up.

And when you grew up, you mentioned a phrase I thought was interesting.

You said, I grew up at the intersection of fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity.

And I think that kind of helps talk about how you got into what you're doing today.

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