Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison, and I'm so glad you're here to discover what brings out the best of you.

This podcast is all about breaking free from painful patterns, mending the past and discovering our true selves in God.

I can't wait to get started as we learn together how to

become the best version of who we are with God's help. Hey, everyone, and happy almost New Year. I hope

you're getting some downtime this in-between week, this sort of week in between Christmas and New Year's. If you're

working or have a house full of people, I hope you're able to give yourself just a little bit of

time to reflect on the year we've just come through and to consider the year ahead. This is a

great week to carve out some time to pay attention to your MEPs, your mental, emotional, spiritual,

and physical health and how you want to commit to yourself on each of these levels in the new

year. In fact, you can go back to episode three. It's an episode on self-love from way back when I first started this podcast in May,

there's a MEPs exercise at the end of that episode that you can use as you reflect on the new

year. I'm coming on today for just a few minutes to share with you two new things that we're really excited to try

in the new year starting today. So the first thing I want to do is announce our new series.

It's three solo episodes that's going to start next Thursday. But what's new is as we launch a new series, I've created a space for you to ask

your questions about the topic. So every time I start a new series, I'm going to give you a

heads up. Here's what's coming down the road. Here's the link to the question doc for you to let me know your questions about

that topic. And this will be a way for me to engage your questions in real time as I create

the episodes for that series. So the new series is called Three Ways to Detox Your Heart, Soul,

and Mind. So this is a spiritual, emotional detox,

not to be confused with this process that folks who are detoxing from a substance have to go through

or detoxing from a food have to go through. This is a way of cleansing of detoxing your heart, soul, and mind. And I'm going to talk about

the ways that we inadvertently and often subconsciously begin to numb or begin to clutter up or

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