Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? I hope you're getting through the week.

Great to see ya. Now, on last night's show, we were talking about get ready for dating, what to think about when dating.

Tonight's show, it's going to be a little similar, but actually completely different.

So a little bit of a trigger warning. We're going to talk about how to get back into relationships and feel safe again when you've maybe left something like a traumatic abusive relationship. And this is really important. But again, this applies to everyone.

So I'm kind of spending this week building it a lot of skills and dropping some gems around

what we have to think about so as to get out of our own way because honestly, that's what I see

happening often. And tonight we're going to be focusing again on returning to,

well, we're trying to rebuild trust in others after having been let down by them. So again,

trigger warning are going to be, you know, talking about trauma a little bit, but really important,

important stuff coming out of this. So when I was preparing for this, I thought, like, I need to also

maybe put this on my social media. I think this is really important stuff. So the first thing I want to remind everyone is, uh, trauma occurs and we want to be aware of when we've just maybe been a part of our leftist situation that was traumatic for us. Why? Well, because we want to make sure that we do work with and through that trauma somehow.

Trauma, unprocessed, undelt with is going to exist in our bodies and our minds and our nervous

system and our psyches. And often it's something that we can keep maybe perpetuating in future

and current relationships and not really understanding why. Why do these problems keep happening?

It's hard sometimes just even taking that step for someone to identify that they were in something

abusive. How could I be part of a family system where a brother, a family member, a mother,

a father was abusive to me, but taking it more specifically into adult relationships,

sometimes it's hard to look back and know that

the person who both claimed to love you and maybe at times express behavior that felt like love,

that they might have also been a perpetrator and that they might have also harmed and abused you.

We've talked on other shows about what that looks like.

So we're not really going to get into that.

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