Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess. To be perfectly honest, we don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity. Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.

The hard will be really hard, and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.

We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.

But we also know that the joy we found is all the more profound because of the pain.

So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly because there will also be joy and hope and humor.

Welcome to the ugly truth about the girl next door.

Hello and welcome back to the ugly truth about the girl next door.

Lurring Kate, we're both here.

You already know us, so that's good.

So our subject today is about trauma and physical consequences because, yeah, Kate did a thing

this week.

Yeah.

To be honest, like, even recording this episode today, there's not a lot of space in the moment for me to do this. But here we are doing it because we feel like it's important. But earlier this week, my family and I went on a skiing, a little skiing getaway at Holiday Valley.

Friends of ours had rented a condo and we went up to spend a couple days with them.

And skiing is kind of one of our things that we do together as a family.

And it's sort of like a happy point.

It's a happy place for me. It's definitely, it feels like I'm,

I just, it's a happy place. I feel like a regular person. I feel like a regular person. And I feel like

I'm accomplishing something every time I do something new. And I feel connected to myself and connected

to my kids. And just, it's a really good thing for me,

just mentally and emotionally. And it's just so great to do with my family. And you're looking

forward to like we've been doing this hard thing. Yep, we've been doing a lot of episodes and there

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