Vienna Farron, welcome to Iway. How are you?

I'm wonderful. Thank you for having me. Happy to be here.

I'm so thrilled to have you. We have wanted a licensed professional for these Ask Me Anything episodes for ages, because otherwise it's just me and my friends.

And we really didn't go to school for long enough to answer any of the more

kind of serious questions. And so I'm so happy to have you here and we have so many fun questions

for you, both from your audience and mine. Before we get into it, would you like to explain your

area of expertise? Sure. I'm a licensed marriage and family

therapist. So I work with individuals, couples, and families within the context of relationships,

but really specifically, I love looking at the family of origin, the family system that we grew up

in, sometimes multiple systems. If you're like me, my parents went through a divorce. And so there were two

systems in which I needed to learn how to be and relate and what the rules were and how to

operate in these different homes. And so I really like to look at how we grew up and understand

the foundation, the framework that was built for us.

You know, in those early years, our families are the first education, as we know, when it comes

to how to communicate, how to fight, what boundaries look like, what love is, what attachment is,

what it isn't. Right. And so many of us do not have the best education. I didn't have a great education

when it came to that. And so my work is really about looking at the unwanted patterns in our

lives today that we can't seem to shake and change no matter how much we want to, no matter how committed

we are to it, and really pointing people back to the irresolution from their past, looking at

the wounding that took place in their earlier years that maybe hasn't gotten the attention

and the honoring and the acknowledgement that it needs in order

to actually create the change that we want to see in our lives and in our relationships.

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