So, Oh, uh, uh, Good morning gorgeous. How are you doing this morning? I hope you're having a wonderful day so far.

Welcome to the Dr. Daph show.

I'm your host Dr. Michelle Daph.

And yes, today we're doing a podcast,

a little bit just more casual and personal, where I'm just talking to you about some things that

impacted my femininity, specifically negativity and how my negative environment impacted my personality impacted the way that I

experienced life. This is just to kind of let you know that even if you're not in a situation right now that's the best

for you in terms of the people that you live with or the people that you work with or even

your husband or your children knowing that you can come out from that and you can be the woman that God

has called you to be.

You can truly embrace your true self despite the influences around you and that really comes from a place of you deciding

that you want to change, that you want to be different and realizing how much your environment

is shaping your behaviors and your actions.

It's very difficult to know sometimes whether something is you or it's because of what you're being

exposed to. It's not until you kind of get plucked out from that situation sometimes.

Maybe you travel somewhere by yourself or you go to a camp or you're just in a completely different

environment that you realize that where you are is so toxic and this is not just about your environment at home or with the people that you live with.

This really also speaks to your environment

of your mind, of the things that you choose to watch and listen to because as you're

going to hear me talk about mostly people in my life and how it affected me,

one of the things that really did affect me also was what I allowed into my mind.

I would spend so much time on gossip sites on

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