Hey, guys, welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show.

I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is my co-host from the babybraw.com,

Erica Latham.

Hey, Erica.

What up, Mama. So, Erica Latham. Hey, Erica. What up, Mama.

So last week, what was it, maybe like two episodes ago now, we talked about sharing our anxiety story or really any hard story with others. And today, this was actually your beautiful, bright idea.

We're going to talk about how to hear

someone else's story. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's... Yeah, because one, we want to be heard,

especially in our little anxiety stories. Yeah. And sometimes with our anxiety, we don't know how

to really listen. Or at least I didn't. Yeah. Yeah. I think,

I think there's value in acknowledging how hard it can be to hear someone else's story that we

just can't relate to, you know, because it helps us. If we know how to hear someone else's story,

it helps us to not take it so personally when someone else is having

trouble hearing our story, right? Like if I know for me to remember like, you know, certain

family members, friends or whatever, if they were going through a hard time and, and I just

didn't get it, remembering that, that there are times in life where I just didn't get it and

it didn't mean that I didn't love my friends and family and didn't want to support them. I just didn't get it. That helped me,

like if, you know, there were very few times Andy understood my anxiety story, it didn't mean he

wasn't a great support, but there were a lot of times he wasn't able to say me to or really

understand where I was coming from. But it doesn't mean we can't be good

listeners. And again, if we kind of know just part of life is not always getting everybody's

story, then it allows us to not feel like such an outcast if we share ours and someone's kind of like,

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