I crave a sense of control from growing up in a chaotic household, but now as an adult,

it's costing me my relationships and inner peace.

How do I keep my emotions and trauma from holding me back?

Jennifer, I mean, Josh, your thoughts?

I was going to say, I think Ryan wrote this question under an alien.

I thought you wrote it.

Jennifer, I think it's so...

Well, I think that's such a powerful question, because it really does speak to exactly

what we were talking about previously around past ways of being in the world that were

actually functional.

And I think that's really important.

So, Jennifer, I...

I...

A core part of my work is really about self-compassion.

And I think that this is really important, and for everyone who's listening right now,

I invite you just for a moment to recognize that there is a five-year-old inside you.

We all walk through the world in our armor.

We've got our clothes and our shoes and our way of being and our introduction and our

elevator pitch, and we've got all of this stuff.

But beneath all of it, there is a five-year-old inside of us.

And that five-year-old is very often just like tugging us on our shirt and saying,

you know, see me, back, see me, love me.

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