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Life presents the toughest challenges. Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.

We're told to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively,

but what do you do when that stuff doesn't work?

Welcome to the overwhelmed brain, where you'll learn to make decisions that are right for you

so that you can create the life you want now. Hello and welcome to the show my name is Paul Kolyani and I'm here to help

you increase your emotional intelligence so that you can avoid dysfunction handle

toxic situations with grace and ease, and show up as your

authentic self.

Everything I talk about on this show is my personal opinion and is meant for information on educational

purposes only.

Always consult a medical or psychological professional before making any changes that could affect your physical or mental health.

All right, I got an email from someone in his teenage years that seems wiser than I was at that age.

As far as when I was 19, I was not thinking, well, I wasn't thinking, I wasn't thinking of a lot of stuff and this person wrote to me and I'm going to call him Joe and

Joe is asking me a question about trusting people and how can you get into a

space of trusting people and I'm just going to read you the email and I just

wanted to kind of prime you for what the subject matter of this email was about. Joe says you're adopting a much healthier mindset. Great to hear. I'm the stereotypical teenage

burnout, 19 now, and I have a history of getting bullied in past trauma that I

never healed from up until this past year.

I ended up resorting to drinking.

I'm in a much better mindset now, but some residual problems still arise.

I've just barely gotten over the hump of accepting myself for who I am, warts and all, and I'm making my first

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