Hello again, beautiful, beautiful beings, and welcome back to another episode of Expand with yours truly

Elizabeth April. Today we are talking all about our loved ones. That's right. Good old family members and friends and neighbors and all of the

people in your life. When I talk about human issues or human challenges, it usually has to do, you guessed it, with other humans.

Like, you know, part of me understands that we are social creatures who need connection to

others and, you know, support and all of that great stuff that, you know,

societies are built on. However, the society that we all live in is so limited. It's so,

I don't want to say corrupt. It's so skewed. It's so twisted that no one actually has the skills

to really, truly step up and support each other the way that we need to be supported.

So it creates this dynamic of all of us having extraordinarily low standards for the relationships and dynamics in our life,

especially based on childhood. Well, I asked my parents for what I needed, which was more

attention, affection, love, companionship, communication, I mean, whatever, the support, right, whatever

it is that you needed as a child.

But I never got it.

I never really got what I wanted.

They gave me other things, but they didn't give me really, truly what I was asking for.

So from then on, based on the disappointment that you felt, for asking what you just simply didn't receive and being disappointed, you avoid disappointment in your life today as an adult, so that you don't ask the people that you love for what you need, for fear that they're, A, not

capable of giving it, or B, not willing to give it. So you settle. You settle for service-level,

subpar, drab relationships that are in a cycle of enablement and disappointment and exhaustion.

So hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, you're at a place where your relationships are breaking down,

where you no longer have really a lot of people in your life, if anyone at all in your life.

And that's a process that we have to go through.

In order to shift all of the relationships and dynamics in our life into a higher vibration,

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