You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

And today, we are diving deep into the catalyst to pivotal personal transformation, hitting bottom.

Unfortunately, it is through great pain that comes great change, or at least that has been my experience.

I've yet to find the easier, softer way, as I think it's the case for most of us.

So that is why we need to flip our thinking to, fortunately, it is through great pain that comes great change.

And today, I am talking to Bonnie Chance.

She is a life coach.

I would consider her a bit of a spiritual guru, and she is going to be spitting gems of wisdom for our ears and our hearts to take in.

But before that, let's talk a little bit more about butts, and when I say butts, I mean bottoms.

You guys, what do you think about that though? Do you think that we could make that a thing?

Hitting butt. Hitting rock butt.

I think you all know how fucking weird I am, but if not, this is definitely the episode where you

all unsubscribe. Now you've heard about my many experiences of hitting rock butt, but let's talk

about what a butt really is. Okay, I'm going to stop really, so I'm going to try to, to reel this in.

So the sequence of recovery or healing usually begins with hitting a bottom and asking for help.

And just as all butts come in all shapes and sizes, side note, have you noticed that that

is another weird phrase that I tend to use a lot, all shapes and sizes, apologies for all former

and all future times that I will definitely use that phrase, all shapes and sizes. But bottoms,

hitting bottoms comes in all shapes and sizes, meaning varying degrees of pain and varying

degrees of repercussions. But regardless of what they look like, all bottoms require the same

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