You want to look at every serious problem in our society today and I mean virtually every single one maybe I'm overstating this by saying all them but whether it's what fills our jails what creates psychiatric illness what creates homelessness poverty interpersonal chaos you find childhood abuse at the core of all these things and we live in a world where trauma is transmitted generation from one to the next

world. Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family and today we are diving deep with just some random dude you've probably never heard of him before I think his name is

Dr. Drew Pinsky yes Dr. Drew is gracing us all with his presence I had the honor of being on his podcast about a month ago truly a surreal experience and yet again another surreal experience when I had the pleasure of interviewing him yesterday I know he's a super busy dude so just very honored and grateful that he took some time to chat with me now he is somebody that has contributed so much good to this world over the past several decades but most

importantly and I realize that I say that a lot but most importantly but most importantly I just want to emphasize that he is just a really solid human he's super kind he's very authentic what you see on TV or we hear on his podcast that is who he is he's compassionate he's hard working and he's super super smart and today I think you'll get to see you know a different

side of him I tried to focus more on him as a person rather than him as a doctor or television personality and as you heard in the intro the disease of family dysfunction and childhood trauma is something that he is very

passionate about so excited for you guys to hear my conversation with him but first I just want to say that this is the 20th episode of adult child you guys how

the hell did we get here how the hell have you been listening to my voice for 20 episodes and all the things that I say on a rather frequent basis including

rather I mentioned but most importantly I've noticed quite a few things that I say on a regular basis I seem to like to start sentences off

with really long like ends or so I seem to say but rather quite often all these weird annoying things that I say on a regular basis you're probably counting how many times I say them each

episode just know that I am to oh and the other one is I I seem to start off sentences by saying yes yes how have you guys listened to me for this long but seriously I was

reflecting on a conversation that I had with my therapist right before I launched the first episode and I remember talking to her about what was I hoping to get out of this

experience I keep you my expectations and check and it was number one that I just wanted to do it as I've shared in the years leading up to the launch of this

podcast I had started many creative ventures only to shit the bed before they got to the finish line so that was kind of number one was just to

actually do it to take something over the finish line and then the other thing was just to help one person and I know that this podcast has helped a lot more than one person I'm I'm really blown away at the

response that this podcast has received and I just want to thank you all because I wouldn't still be doing this if it wasn't for y'all you know when I first started this I was

thinking maybe eight episodes maybe 10 that seemed like a stretch but I got to eight I got to 10 and I just kept on going and I'm a keep on going and that's because of

you all thank you so much for your support thank you for listening thank you for sharing this podcast with other people thank you for your messages I want you to know that

every time I receive a message from any of you guys it's a spiritual experience for me I've received many that have made me cry

and I'm just blown away at this whole experience and just feel so grateful and I'm just going to keep being my authentic goofy ass self each week I'm still very much on this healing journey I'm not healed I just hope that you

can relate I hope that you can take gems away from each episode and each interview and I hope that I can inspire you to to laugh at yourself some you know some of you may have seen the the post I made on Instagram

today it was a quote from the language of letting go and it said as I journey through recovery more and more I learned that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies laughing at myself for

my ways gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect maybe that's really what it's all about absolute loving joyous nurturing self acceptance and I try to exude that through this podcast

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