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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman.

My first book, The Five Principles of Parenting,

Your Essential Guide to Raising raising good humans is out now in this

book I've wanted to quiet all the noise that's out there and distill the science into five core

principles and using those principles you can solve absolutely any parenting challenge

giving you the confidence to raise good humans. Order now and give yourself a little bit of ease.

Hey friend, it's Nicole, host of the Nicole Walters podcast.

Here's where we laugh, we cry, and we grant ourselves grace as we do life

together. Let's get started. Hey y'all, I mentioned in last week's chat that this was kind of a big one for me and it is and I say that because

there's so much that I've had to evaluate wanting to share as I am growing my family and getting remarried and all that jazz but I also

always want to bring you with me on the journey and if you tuned in on

Instagram last week I did a Q&A and one of the questions that kept coming up was,

Nicole, how on earth did you get to the place where you felt comfortable loving again,

being loved, getting married again, just opening yourself up to that.

And there are two things about that I want to address before I get into that answer

that I shared and I've been having conversations about in the the d.

The first one is I love having these chats with you because everyone here is

so respectful and grace-filled.

So it takes a lot to share vulnerability and my intention

around sharing this aspect of my life is because I've seen the fruit of

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