Hi, just checking in, seeing how you're doing today.

And just seeing if you might want to take a little break.

Step away from the noise of the world for just a minute and connect back with you.

If so, let's take a deep breath in and breathe out and let it all settle. I'm your host,

Michael Gallion, and this is letting it settle. Now, before we begin, I just want to offer

you a gentle reminder that there is nothing fundamentally

wrong with you.

You are not broken or damaged or deficient in some essential way.

You are not too much, you are not too little, you are not behind in life or failing at being

a human being. You are enough, exactly as you are,

right here, right now. And I know that might be hard to believe, especially if you've been

carrying stories about yourself that say otherwise. We all have these internal narratives.

Some are conscious, some are so automatic that we barely notice them.

And these narratives shape how we see ourselves and how we move through the world.

But here's what I want you to know.

The story that you've been telling yourself about yourself is not necessarily

the truth about who you are. It's just one possible story, often written by experiences from long

ago, by other people's opinions, by moments of pain or fear that just got frozen in time.

And what I want to offer you today is this.

You have the power to recognize these old stories

and to gently rewrite them.

You can become the compassionate author of your own narrative.

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