Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 72 of the Flying Free Podcast. This is Natalie Hoffman, your

host and today it's just you and me, baby.

We had an expert workshop, or not expert workshop, but an expert was going to come in and do an interview with me

and he cancelled at the last minute.

So I decided what should I do?

I couldn't find anybody else at the last second like that.

So I just decided to... Well I'm going to be the

expert today. And I thought it might be kind of fun just to hang out and shoot the breeze

with you and talk about whatever. Actually, no, we're not just

going to talk about whatever. I have some ideas. I want to share with you some of the things, the huge paradigm shifts that I had to go through

when I was getting free of my destructive relationship.

Really, actually not just my destructive marriage,

but also all the destructive relationships

I had in my life, because that's one of the things that a lot of women realize they look around they survey the landscape of their lives and they realize oh my word I've got a lot of dysfunctional people in my life and and you know what I mean if

we're honest we also end up surviving in ways that are kind of

dysfunctional too okay we don't want to be that way it's not it completely goes

against our deep values that we have, our core values inside of ourselves, and it's one of the reasons why it's so uncomfortable and so disconcerting to live in relationships and have relationships with people that are not fully functioning

from a place of emotional adulthood.

And because then we're not really fully functioning from a place of emotional adulthood either when we're in relationships like that.

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