Hello, Grand Rapids. It's beautiful anonymous. One hour. One phone call. No names? No holds barred.

Hi everybody, Chris Gatherer here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous. So lucky that I get to do this show.

And I want to thank everybody who listens, tells their friends, who leave your views on whatever device or platform you're listening on.

People who hit the subscribe button and help us out. You're the reason I get to do this show for seven years.

But we try to spread stories and compassion and some empathy. And we all try to just expand our world view one story at a time.

Last week's episode was really tough. The nerd that becomes the bully. And it was really hard to see the comments.

We have our Facebook community, beautiful anonymous, the community on Facebook. Really chill, relaxed place where people discuss episodes.

The site, it's, I tell you, this group, it's kind of people discussing episodes. It was heartbreaking last week.

So people saying stuff like, I could have nearly told this exact story minus the barking at dogs and tripping.

That was comment one, comment two said, again, this was so similar to my life for four years.

The part where the caller says something about still working through some of the things her ex used to tell her that maker's second guess who she is is so validating to me.

It was, it's hard. Hard to see how many comments came in from people.

It was surreal to hear someone else who dealt with the same sorts of things I did in my nine year marriage.

Really hard to see how much of a cord this one struck.

And yeah, much love to everyone out there dealing with similar things.

Under rejecting similar notions about themselves suggested by others.

It's brutal thing. And I'm glad the episode created some sense of catharsis or community for others and caller kudos again to you.

This week's episode much more laid back. This was a live episode from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

And I tell you, we had a very stressful one this week last week.

And this one, a little more chitchat, a little more warm celebratory. The caller's planning a wedding.

Stressed out. We bond over that. I tell some funny stories about what it was like to plan my wedding.

I, we make fun of Ohio. We talk about drums. And I tell a story that I probably shouldn't be sharing publicly because everyone's going to want to know I'm talking about about a wedding crashing situation.

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