Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show,

thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened before, welcome back. Today I am here with one of my

favorite people, associate therapist and my fiance, Elizabeth Ferreira. So Elizabeth, how are you doing today?

I'm doing great, happy to be back.

I feel like we're on a roll with 2026.

I feel the same way.

I love the last one that we did.

We talked about the fixing tendency versus the desire to empathize with people

and how people who are more logical, rational,

tend to wander more into fixing, people who are more emotionally relational tend to wander more into that like

empathic attunement. These desires often butt heads with each other. And we talked a lot about how to

reclaim both sides of a person's personality because everybody's got all of this stuff

to varying degrees

inside of themselves. Then at the very end of that conversation, I mentioned, hey, at some point,

people have been wanting us to do an episode that's more about being in a relationship with somebody

who has complex PTSD or some other kind of mental health issue. How do you manage that inside of a relationship?

And you gave an unbelievable five-minute riff where you were like, okay, I'm just going to give

you a little spoiler on what we'll talk about. And, you know, my jaw was on the floor by the

end of it. I thought it was fantastic. A couple of the things that you talked about, you talked a little bit about they're sturdier than you think, a little bit about pushing edges and getting kind of comfortable with pushing edges with each other, creating safety inside of the relationship was sort of implicit in some of that. Would you mind doing at least a little bit of that riff again at the start of this episode maybe for people who

didn't listen to the last one well you should listen to the other one but i'll hope you are you should

listen to the other one but okay so basically i want to i want to set the stage that this is in a context

where both people are we're assuming they're good people. That they are committed to building a life together.

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