So the phrase that I would use for you that I tell parents when I'm working with really

volatile kids is calm, it's contagious, and so is everything else.

Calm, it's contagious.

So is everything else.

Every single human being that is triggered becomes a seven-year-old version of themselves

until someone more mature steps into the conversation.

Someone more mature.

Children are the collective representation of the combined trauma of their parents.

Combined trauma.

Same is one of the biggest examples of this, right?

We both come from spiritual backgrounds, and we were indoctrinated and introduced to so

much language around what was wrong with us.

And then we weren't equipped with the idea of what it looks like to reconcile that in a

way that lets me know I'm fully capable of becoming a healthier version of myself.

But as if somebody tells me the only thing that you're going to do is try to be just a

little less broken tomorrow than the only thing that I know is I'm speaking the fluency

of brokenness.

We're designed for connection, even on the neuronal level.

So I think the innate nature of the way everything is designed is to seek out connection and

to seek out personal growth and development, but to do so in community.

You're kind of like one of those Russian stacking dolls that if you're 30, there's a 25-year-old

version of you inside of you and a 20-year-old version and a 15, 10, 5.

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