Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra. In today's episode, I'm going to be talking about why you are not broken, you do not need

to be fixed, you are, and always have been whole.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bells. So I think it's mostly fair to assume that when we were babies just entering into the world,

we weren't flooded with ideas of what was right with us or what was wrong with us.

We weren't thinking, oh, I'm such a fat baby, or all the other babies over there are so much better looking than me.

You just were, even if you had very difficult early moments of life, you weren't yet layered with all of these judgments

and ideas about things needing to be different or you needing to be different.

There was a deeper permission to be yourself and to have your experience.

And in this absence of judgment, you're not broken. you don't need to be fixed, and you're whole.

It's only when we start navigating the world, a little bit more the complexities of it and the

and the often harshness of it, this embodied understanding of our wholeness

gets clouded by society telling you to look a certain way, act a certain way,

be a certain way.

And some of this learning over time is important.

It's helpful to learn what we need to do to fit in, to live in harmony

with the people around us, to take care of the world around us and so we learn how to adjust maybe our normal tendencies to to fit

Being in the world as we need to.

But much of the time, these prescriptions that we've received for

who we need to be cause us to live in a story that we're fractured, that some part of us is broken, that we need to come back to a place of completeness by fitting into whatever this prescription

that we've received.

Much of this, of course course is very subconscious, some of it non-cognitive and even pre-verbal.

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