My brain isn't in a place where I can trust my thoughts. So I'm going to go get my brain in a place and my body in a place where I can trust my thoughts where I'm out of my trauma so that I can think clearly.

Because if I'm acting out of the trauma, I will recreate it over and over and over and over again.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others

leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease. I'm Brett Kistler, here today with my

co-host, Joe Hudson. Yeah, so wow, that was quite an opening Q&A. Yeah, Art of Accomplishment is on.

Yeah. Holy crap. Yeah, people went there. Oh my gosh. Unlike any

start of anything I've been in. There was amazing how vulnerable it got, how quickly it was

really cool. Yeah, I remember last year, the first, the first Q&A after the first week of work went really, really deep,

and we were all blown away. But this one was just like the orientation. Like, you're going

through a bunch of PowerPoint slides. And it's like, oh, man, I can bet half of the people here

are probably bored to tears. And then like before you know it, a couple questions come through

and it's straight to the core. Straight to it. Yeah. Yeah, Sarah was saying to me, she said, I was scared at a minute.

Like last year we got lightning in a bottle and it might not happen again. She goes,

that fear is completely gone. She's just like, first thing she said when I call, she goes,

I miss AOA calls. This is great. Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So something I wanted to talk about today is something that I saw today in this

call. So many of the things that we do in this work, so many of the times that I see you work with people,

it often boils down to some form of family dynamic. And we've talked about this before,

that we have these

projections that we carry from our childhood, people who are caretakers or parents or family members,

but also projections of society, projections of money. But in particular, there's something to

this concept of family dynamics that just continually comes up. And I've noticed it

come up in my life a lot, in my relationships. I've projected my mother onto basically anybody I've

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