Our top 25 countdown continues. Coming in at number 21, Dr. Mariel Bouquet. This is a conversation

we had before the release of Dr. Bouquet's book, Break the Cycle, a guide to healing intergenerational

trauma. But in it, you're going to hear the seedlings of what would grow to be her national

bestseller.

Dr. Bucke, I'm going to toss a question that you often ask on Instagram back at you, which is, how's your soul doing today?

That's very sweet.

It's actually pretty at peace.

It's, you know, filled with ease and, um, yeah,

so it's feeling pretty good today. My body and spirit are pretty steady. How about you?

How's yours? It's cluttered is what I would say. I've cluttered. I haven't heard that one before. Something you've made me think about is that part of that is lifetime work.

And part of that is just day-to-day work of ease or decluttering.

Absolutely. Yeah. That's a really great way of framing it.

It absolutely is a bit of both, right? Because even when we're doing the lifetime work, there are some

days that can just, just by way of being the days that they are, right, just produce a bit more

just equilibrium for us. And that doesn't necessarily mean that the work that we've been doing,

the long-term work is in vain or that it's not working. It's just that it's just a new day

where the daily restoration needs to take place. So many of those days. Yeah. As a child,

you knew you were destined to do this. Five years old, you immigrate from the Dominican Republic

to the United States, six years old, you're in an immigration office, sort of look around the room,

and the need for healing becomes very apparent to you. What was it you saw as a child? What was it

you were picking up on in that room?

Now that I am able to see it in retrospect,

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