Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about finding your people. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So finding your people. What do I mean by this? Well, I'm talking about the community of people around you. Your social circle, the people who you're close to, friends,

family, but really the people that you choose to associate with, that support you becoming the person you want to become, that see the best in you, that root you on, that hold you becoming the person you want to become,

that see the best in you, that root you on,

that hold you to a certain standard, your people.

And as social creatures, we all need people.

It doesn't need to be a lot of people. Sometimes just a couple of good close friends goes a really

long way for meeting our needs of connection. But a lot of times we find ourselves around others

in a way that is not fulfilling for us. It's not meeting our needs for connection. We feel

complexity in our relationships and we might really have a sense of what we want and who we would

appreciate around us, but not sure how to get it, not sure how to rearrange our social circles.

So I just want to speak to that, at least one thread of that, in this podcast.

And this is really going to be a call for authenticity more than anything because in order to build a community around us or even just a

few people around us that support who we are and appreciate who we are and love who we are

we have to first share who we are and appreciate who we are and love who we are. We have to first share who we are.

And this is where it gets complicated in social dynamics, which is that we have all of these

ideas about the parts of us that are wanted or not wanted, accepted, not accepted, good, bad. And we try to present

just the parts that are going to be appreciated or that we at least perceive are going to be

appreciated. But this sets us up for some inevitable frustration and disconnection,

because even if it's true that those parts are received well by other people,

they're only knowing a fraction of who we are, one angle of who we are.

And in order to maintain that particular dynamic, at least in our mind, and potentially

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