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You do have an extraordinary amount of compassion for your parents.

And, you know, I don't know how consistent that is for you.

I don't know if that's a baseline for you.

I don't know whether, you know, that's your best self speaking.

And then you have other moments where it doesn't feel that well.

But I'm just wondering whether really feeling into their lives and trying to understand

where they were at.

If that's been helpful for you, yes.

With regard to your own self perception.

Yeah, it has.

It's given me a little more leniency, right?

Like I've given myself some slack, I think, in general, when I finally started to really

step into self compassion, was after hanging out with a lot of six-year-olds.

So I was a first grade teacher, and truly six-year-olds are unbelievable, favorite age.

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