A crappy childhood does not have to be a life sentence for a crappy life.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, now.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, what you're holding on to

just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up

in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, my dear chit shows.

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea.

I am a total incomplete chit show.

I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship and this is where we talk about

what to do when your childhood screwed you up a whole lot more than you initially thought that it did. So today we are diving deep into an oldie but a goodie because this gal needs to give herself a little bit of a break and I'm saying this

out loud because perhaps this is going to give you permission to give yourself a break as well.

Yeah, I was just thinking.

I've been doing this.

My first episode was March 31st, 2021.

I think there's only been like one time where I did not put out an episode at all during the week.

I think there's been two times where I've done reruns.

So I'm allowed to do another rerun, okay?

I'm allowed to do a rerun. I've been in a lot of physical pain. So my neck and my

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