Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

Today's episode comes directly from you, the viewer and listener, particularly from our

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This is from Benjamin.

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And your suggestion, Benjamin, we decided to turn into an episode that is addressing our

responsibilities to ourselves before we can be responsible for anyone else.

Love Benjamin.

Benjamin, we love you too.

We thank you for this suggestion and thought we would dive in for today's episode.

I think for me personally, this concept of having a self and tending to self and responsibility

to self was a really new concept up through my 30s when I really came to realize how little

I did that.

You know, thinking I was being a good person, being supportive, always seeking to achieve

or do something, what I come to realize around that time was how little responsibility and

care I was for myself in action.

I was always overstepping my limits, always talking myself out of my emotions, always

again, thinking I was doing for someone else or in service of someone else, only to come

to realize that ultimately I wasn't including myself in that equation at all.

I have a similar experience thinking or really intending to live such a selfless life that

in reflection, I can see many decades, at least all through my 20s in some ways, was

very selfish because while I devoted all of my time to national service, volunteer projects,

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