Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I'm guessing, my friend, if you listen to this podcast, that you might be the go-to as the person who dispenses advice to your friends. Am I right? Those of us who do the self-help

who tune into podcasts like this one. I can't help but think that we are the ones that people

come to when they have a problem, when they have a question, when they're dealing with a

frustration or a challenge or an obstacle, or they can't make a decision about something.

And because we love to help and because we have ideas and because we're enthusiastic,

it's so fun and it feels so wonderful to dive right in and help another person.

Right?

I always think that.

I always think, gosh, what a privilege to

have someone come to you and ask for some support or some guidance or to talk something out.

I mean, I love it. I mean, talk about life coaching as the best career ever, ever, ever.

Well, I would like to offer something today in the spirit actually of coaching that, in fact, Terry Cole shared this with me on the podcast.

Please listen to her interview if you haven't already.

It's so good.

She just came out with a book last year called Too Much, which is about high functioning codependency.

And what she shared on the podcast with me was this. If there's even just one takeaway

you get from that book, from the conversation that her and I had together, it's this. When someone comes to you saying,

hey, I'm not happy in my relationship, or hey, this bad thing happened at work, or hey, I can't

figure out this problem. Whatever it is that someone comes to you with, maybe it's a friend,

maybe it's a parent, maybe it's your child, a co-worker, whatever it is. When someone comes to you with

something pressing that they, that's making them unhappy or that's causing, you know,

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