Welcome to the Emma Gun Show.

Life's defining moments don't always feel that great when they're happening.

In the moment they can feel challenging, uncomfortable, difficult, impossible even, but with

hindsight they can take on a different shape.

With the benefit of that 2020 perspective we can begin to see how the most difficult times

were a life lesson we didn't know we needed to learn.

Each week I asked my guest to share their biggest life learnings to date as we explore

those difficult, swampy, infuriating times and how they shaped them all from a comfortable

distance that supported them the time to take the positive out of what might have seen

nothing but negative at the time.

Because whether it's obstacles, challenges, risks, excuses, opportunities, successes, failures

or curveballs, they are the reason they are the person they are today, the person sitting

in front of me on this episode of the Emma Gun Show.

You know what's really interesting is I've always felt as somebody who never wanted to

have children and who doesn't have children very much in the out group, you know?

And I've kind of started using the term a reproductive to describe myself.

The experience of having a loved one in the grips of an addiction, for example, it's

so frustrating not to be able to help them and to know that the only person who can really

help them is themselves and the pain of experiencing their suffering with them is just, it's

too much to bear sometimes.

There is no one size fits answer, one size fits all answer to these sorts of life transformations

and behaviour shifts that we all need to make at some point or we can all get too attached

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