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prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,

Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women

all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every week as I coach a

listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing. I am thrilled to welcome

Valerie to the podcast today. Welcome, Valerie. Hi, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me, Julie.

You're welcome. What is your question for me today?

So this is, okay, I want to talk to you about two big subjects. I'll try to consolidate my question. It's about some struggles that I have around validation and my insecurities. And I'll give you a little bit of backstory. Okay. I am, I'm a therapist. And in the last,

yeah, yeah. So we're fellow therapists. So I'm excited to pick your brain about this. And also I'm a

podcaster. So there's a few things that cross over between us. I started. We should be friends.

We should be. This is a perfect beginning. I started this podcast less than a year ago. So this is very

tender for me. And I feel like I'm new to this particular struggle. These insecurities,

these things. It's a podcast. It's called latter day struggles. And I am basically working in the

realm of faith crisis, faith deconstruction, reconstruction, expansion.

I sort of stumbled into it.

It grew really fast and I have evolved my whole work life around it.

But it's also very tender for me because it's part of my own journey.

So I'm kind of like walking on this journey on a good day. I'm a few

steps ahead on a bad day. Not so much. You know, that kind of thing. So the thing that I wanted to

visit with you about is it feels in some ways like at first I wanted to talk to you about the feedback

that I get on,

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