Hi. Oh, you know what? In the effort to be as professional as possible, welcome to After Hours with Amanda, the podcast that is about parenting, but really about everything else.

It's been so long, I feel like, and can I just tell you, and I have iced coffee, by the way, it's

decath. We have a lot to catch up on. Okay, we have a lot to catch up on. And in the effort to be

as honest as possible, I think that I need to share it with you. So this is going to be a catch up

episode in what's been going on, why podcast episodes have not been steady and just life in general and the fact that sometimes

we need to make allowances for stepping out of this mentality that things have to happen right

then and there and we're going to miss the opportunity. And if we miss it, it's never coming

again because it's a journey that I'm on

right now and I think that you might be able to relate to it. So I'm excited. I'm going to be recording

my prayer after I finish this is to record a couple of episodes so I can drop some because you all

know we're getting ready to go to

Disneyland. But what I want to talk to you about today is the fact that something I didn't know

when I was starting therapy. And that is that when you're doing therapy work, no matter what

your trauma looks like, like can we just get over this idea that if you haven't had some like

earth-shattering thing happen in your

life, that that isn't traumatic and you don't need any type of assistance for it.

Like, let's just remove this idea that trauma has to be leveled up or comparative, or if it

isn't earth-shattering for everyone around you or in the scheme of world events and movies you

see, like if it's not

that, it's not trauma. Let's take that expectation out. And let's just say that things can be

traumatic for us in different ways. Now, does that mean that other people have to immediately

understand our trauma and be very aware of it? No. Does it mean that if we want to share it with

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