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Try and win 11 Sydney. Welcome to the program.

Hi. Hi Sydney. What can I do for you? I had a lot of questions, but I feel like in listening to everything you said today.

I'm really happy with the life of the people and the journey that you're on because I feel a calling to do the same, but I wonder if I'm making a mistake because I've always put everybody else before myself.

Then you're probably making a good decision not doing it because you wouldn't be acting as a professional. You'd be fulfilling your needs to make a bond by being needed.

Yeah.

So you're very wise. That wasn't very insightful of you. I'm impressed.

Thank you. I have good parents. They're just hardworking and you know, we all are overworked underpaid.

What were all the other questions you believe you had answered?

You know, it's just family stuff that I had to learn the hard way that, you know, I can share my stuff, my personal problems, but it's not always respectful to over share in certain situations, you know, because it can affect my family as well when I share their business.

It just feels to me that there's a lot of not openness, I guess.

And openness requires discerning choices. Being open as just a general rule is not a good idea.

Yeah. I understand that.

Being open when and how it's appropriate is something else entirely. There are things you ought not be open with with certain people that you could be open with with other people.

Yeah. I think I had to realize that's the hard way. I mean, every all the advice and stuff that I've been given has always been very genuine and amazing from each of my family members. They're all, you know, great role models for me.

I've been in all of them all so much and I miss them a lot, but I think, you know, it's maybe more of a problem with me getting over the fact that, you know, I did make a lot of mistakes in my childhood and I always, you know, look at myself in that way.

I feel like my parents see me as a child and I want them to understand that I can stand on my own to feet, but I know it's just in me proving it is, you know, the proof is in the pudding, I guess.

Yes, that's correct. You will be treated like a child as long as you appear to be.

Yeah. I think that's what was going on, honestly.

So what part of being independent, making your decisions different from probably what your parents would think, are you facing now?

I think I just, I had a lot of anxiety disorder issues growing up and they went untreated because of, you know, my belief is that my brother, so my brother had seizures when he was a baby.

And, you know, I overthink everything. So I've thought about this a lot.

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