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So faith has always been really important to me. Like I don't remember a time that it wasn't a part of my life.

And it was always really important to my family. This is Andi Colbert.

Andy Colbert. Andi is a therapist and the author of TriSofter, a fresh approach to move us out of anxiety,

stress, and survival mode, and into a life of connection and joy.

But part of my experience that, you know, I think for a long time, was hard for me to parse out

and understand is that there was also really significant trauma in my family.

I'm a survivor of complex trauma.

And I don't usually talk a ton about the details of that. But the big picture is that my dad has a lot of

mental health issues and that he didn't address and wasn't willing to address. And that resulted

in a lot of like psychological and verbal abuse

for me and my siblings and my mom and my mom's also a recovering alcoholic. She's been sober

for about 14 years. So all that to say, that's a lot to piece together for any person.

You know, like to have this experience, I'm so grateful to have known Jesus,

really my whole life. And my experience of God has over time, like there's been a lot of different

seasons where God has felt really near. And there have been times when I have been like, God,

where are you? And, you know, the longer

that I do the work that I do, which is I'm a, I'm a therapist, the more that my faith continues

to ground me in the work that I do. Because part of my work is that as a trauma therapist primarily is that I've come

to just value how our bodies work and how our bodies are designed and how God, I really believe

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