Hello and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

Today's episode is about family.

This conversation, as most are, are inspired by our personal lives.

And Jen and I just got off of two family visits.

I had my sister come into town and she had her twin brother.

So we thought what better an opportunity than to really begin to dive into this topic and

really begin to explore the different ways that we navigate our family relationships at

different stages of our healing journey.

It makes me laugh to even think of diving into the topic of family because family is such

a just a vast concept even really.

What I consider family may be very different from what someone else considers family and

both are incredibly valid and both are likely very triggering in some ways as family usually

means our closest connection or for many of us are core connection or the earliest ones

that we had when we were younger.

That's talking about specifically blood family or those caregivers around us who very

likely may not be blood.

I know a lot of what I considered in reflection family as a child was not blood.

They were neighbors.

They were teachers.

They were community members that really kind of stepped in and became my closest caregivers.

Though when we peel back and we think of family in general very often triggers and wounding

do come up for a whole vast array of very valid reasons.

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