Hi everybody, welcome to the women's dating and confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're going to be talking about empathetic witnesses.

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So I want to talk about something that we often don't give enough attention to and maybe

don't realize the full impact of, which is empathetic witnesses. And really, I was thinking

about this this week because I went through a period of like one and a half

two years ago, really putting my mind to creating really good friendships here in Portland. And I was

really pushing myself to be super social, even though I'm introverted,

to overcome social anxiety so that I can feel connected with people instead of anxious.

And it has paid off big time. It's really one of those things that was worth all of the anxiety that I experienced

in the way that it's coming back to me now and just keeps improving. And so I had a tough week

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