Welcome to the Shalene Show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Yo, so you have found your way to the Shalene Show and I am incredibly grateful for you. There are a bajillion podcasts out there today.

First of all, thank you to every single one of you who right now you're thinking about someone who needs to maybe listen to this episode and

you care enough about them to share this episode. If this program has helped your life and I hope it has and if you're new

I invite you to enjoy the process to enjoy the journey. We talk about all different kinds of things on this show. Everything that could possibly improve your life. We talk about it here

and a lot of these topics are selected by you. Listener, so if you ever have an idea for a show something that I haven't talked about

first just double check iTunes all you have to do is type in my name and then the topic and it will probably pop up

but if it doesn't or if you'd like an update on that topic just leave me a voicemail message. You can do so by going to my website

it's Shalene.com and there's a little widget there that allows you to record a voicemail message like the one I got today

from my girl. I'm not going to use her name because I just don't know if she wants us to stay confidential but I want to share this message with you.

All right, girls, so listen. I just finished listening to 540 adult children of alcoholics and I'm just trying to go on my morning run.

Okay, but you have me pulling over to the side of the track to wipe my tears because I feel this one in my chest

because it spoke to me so profoundly. She hit it right on the head. I'm going to turn 29 next month

and I feel like something is off. I'm an adult. I should have it together and she just

got it. Every single thing down to being the oldest child. I can't believe it. So I'm telling you thank you so much. You were put on this earth to do this work

and I'm so grateful to you. So anyways, I'm going to continue my run now and it's going to be a great run. I can just feel it

and I'm totally bringing this up to my therapist later. But anyways, I love you. I mean it and I can't wait to listen again soon. Bye.

You just made my whole year with that message and I just thank you like to hear someone say that I was meant to do this.

It just lach. I don't have words for the way you make me feel. I can't wait for Jody to hear your message.

And thank you to every single one of you who have reached out to her since our first episode, which was episode 540, episode just prior to this one today's episode is equally important. How week long? All of these are really important. Even if you weren't the child of an alcoholic or an addict, I guarantee this is going to touch your life. I guarantee you have a very good friend, a coworker, a spouse, someone who you love, someone who's close to you who's either dealing with his dealt with this or it is impacted.

Their life and this is what you need to hear today. We're talking about lifting the shame, understanding codependency, guilt, boundaries and what it means to start living life in your terms.

If you haven't listened to episode 540, please go back and do so. Today I'm bringing back on the show. Jody Lamb is our special guest. She is an author and an expert on the topic of adult children of alcoholics.

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