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Hello friends and welcome once again

to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast.

I'm your host Sarah, and this week my guest is you

guys the listeners. That's right we're doing another listener question

episode and I have some great ones for you this week you guys have been

calling in with your questions, listening to the show.

Thank you so much for your support

and for being vulnerable with me.

So yeah, we're going to talk about some family issues.

We're going to talk about boundary stuff, friendship, and let's do it.

So here we go.

Question number one.

Hi Sarah, my name is Lauren and I'm hoping you might have some advice for me.

I've been dealing with anxiety my whole life and a big trigger for me is going against or disappointing my mom.

We have a great relationship, but when my mom is upset with me, she tends to default to the silent treatment, which triggers a lot of fun things in me, I have mainly abandonment issues.

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