Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. I am your host, Taylor Nolan. And this week we

are going to be diving into the topic of scoliosis. I recently shared on Instagram that it was

my 12 year anniversary from my scoliosis surgery and was just so overwhelmed by all the feedback

from all of you and figured I should share a little bit more about this story on here with

you guys. I am back in Seattle now, but Kit is not here. He's actually in LA, but I have a very close

friend and wonderful guest here with me today. She is a practicing therapist here in Seattle. She's an

LMFT and someone I met fairly early on when I moved to Seattle and just felt a very strong connection

with. So thank you so much for being here and welcome Amira to the podcast. Thank you so much for

having me. Yeah. So we met at like a friends party and connected on the fact that we were both

counselors and in the same field and that was super, I think, interesting and very bonding to feel.

And then we also realized that we both have had the same surgery. And I was like, whoa. Yeah, yeah,

I remember when I first met you at the party, it was so surprising because nobody else in our larger

group of friends seems to be in our profession or affiliated with it. And so that felt special.

And then when I learned that you also had scoliosis repair surgery, it was like a double whammy.

Yeah. So I'm really glad to be here and to not meet you. Yeah, me too. Me too. I'm super happy to

have you in my life and you're always someone that I that I really hope and try to make sure that when

I am in town that we can get together and there's so many bonding conversations just therapy-wise.

And so probably have you back on the podcast to get at some point to talk about some of those.

Do you want to share a little bit about kind of what population usually do work with just so people

kind of have a little bit of a background on what you do? Yeah, yeah, sure. So I have two offices.

One in Denton Seattle and one in Bellevue. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist.

And in Seattle, I work mostly with individuals, adult individuals on issues relating from anxiety,

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