Hi friends, welcome back to the show. Hope you're having a great day today. Let's dive right in.

So we are on the topic of making a mess, making mistakes, being human, and figuring out just how much our inner perfectionist is running our lives.

And today I want to take a little walk down memory lane on Thursdays.

I like to go just a little bit deeper when it comes to the work that we've done throughout

the week.

I want you to spend some time just remembering what it was like in your family when you

were growing up, when you were little.

What was the energy, the feeling around making a mistake in your house? Whenever you made a mess, and of course,

as children, we make mess all the time, whenever you made a mess or you did something wrong or you made a mistake,

how was that received? How was that reflected back to you? Some of us grew up in homes where

making a mess was tolerated, where it wasn't a huge deal. Maybe it wasn't great, but it wasn't a big

deal. Some of us grew up in households were making a mess

where it was embraced, where it was a natural part of life, where there wasn't any shame or any

punishment involved at all. And some of us grew up in households where making a mess just wasn't

allowed, where it was something that just immediately meant some form of punishment or

becoming isolated or becoming yelled at or told off, right? And of course, there are so many degrees

to this. So this is not a practice or an episode for us to go into blame or guilt when it comes

to how our parents race does.

With every generation, things shift and things change. And we all know our parents did the best

they could with the tools and resources that they had available to them, right? What we can do now

as we're sitting here as adults holding this and sitting with our own lives and our own inner triggers

and our own history is we can reflect on that and process that and maybe choose to act

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