Hello and welcome back to the Self Healer Soundboard. Today's episode is on Letting Go. Letting

go of relationships that no longer serve us on our healing journey.

Last week's episode was around feeling alone and disconnected on our journey and how that

means that we are healing. And a natural response from those episodes as we shared them on social

media, one person in particular wrote back and asked, how do we actually do that? How do we in

that isolation and disconnection then begin to move forward and let go of relationships that are

no longer serving our higher self. So today we're going to dive into really what Letting Go means,

not necessarily just Letting Go of relationships, but Letting Go of past versions of self, Letting Go

of habits that don't serve and really Letting Go in general.

It has a great place to start in terms of Letting Go of past versions of our self because we talk

about often when we create change in our relationship, the first foundation we have to create change

around is our relationship with our self. Many times we feel lonely because we don't have that

secure connection to us to our needs. So when we're healing often the first process of Letting Go

is around ourselves, Letting Go of old ways we used to show up in relationships as we begin to

make new choices. And I know for me, one of the major realizations I had in my friendships was how

my own habits of codependency, this idea that if people in my life were okay, I was okay. How that

coupled with a very surface level connection around stress, for me that kept me very distant

in my relationships and very resentful of people around me. So as I began to heal, I understood how

important it was for that relationship with myself. It needed to include me meeting my own needs.

So not just making it about other people and then being okay, learning how I can be okay, myself

in relationships. And then of course, deepening my relationship with myself meant I had to break

those habits of only connecting with other people around stress or around surface concerns as I

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