Ep.4 Not proud of our behaviour part 2 w/ Sean Dustin

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Hey, good afternoon. I'm Sean Dustin from the nowhere

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to go But up podcast. And joining me today is Aurora from

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the Borealis experience and Aurora and myself if you haven't

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read the description, we teamed up, because in our past we've

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you know, we were abusive people. And you know, we had

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unhealthy relationships, toxic relationships, the way that we

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dealt with the opposite sex or this, our significant others was

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not necessarily very productive, or very healthy. So what we

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decided to do, and this is be the second episode of what we've

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done is talk about these issues, and share them with you and let

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you guys know that you're not alone, if you are a part of this

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group of people that has experienced these kinds of

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things in the past. And if you're looking to kind of change

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your behaviors, and you know, identify sort of the things in

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the blind spots in your life and in your behaviors. This is what

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we're here to do. We're here to talk about these things. So,

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Aurora, I'm gonna bring her in. Hey, Roy, once you go ahead and

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introduce yourself, I'm gonna, I'm gonna share this real quick,

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with a bunch of different groups while you're taking care of

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that.

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Mm hmm. Thank you so much, Sean. Yeah, my name is Aurora, I

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started the Borealis experience podcast a couple months ago and

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met Sean along the way. And we started talking and just

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realized that we have something in common that we're not really

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proud of. Like Sean just said, we were abusive, and

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manipulative, and not awesome with our previous partners, or

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maybe family members. And I think it is really important as

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a woman to kind of disclose some of the behavior that I heard you

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say, practiced. And from him side, too, to know that, yeah,

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there's women out there who are aware of this kind of behavior,

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and we're not proud of it, we want to be better. We want to

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connect with you guys and have healthy relationships. quantize,

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it is just hard to Yeah, be that wonderful, awesome, heartwarming

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person because of stuff that happens in the past or stuff

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that we still haven't let go. of. So the show here is very,

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very important to me. I'm very excited to be on this. And yeah,

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thank you for supporting us and for sharing or giving us any

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kind of feedback if you can relate, or if this is of any

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benefit for you.

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Thank you. I appreciate that for the yoke. carrying me there for

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a little bit why why shared this through the Facebook groups. But

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yeah, I mean, last, last episode, Episode Number one, we

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talked about our past and kind of the things that you and I

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both did, you took your turn. And I took my turn and we kind

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of gave everybody an idea of kind of the kind of people we

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were the things that we would do, you know, the traps that we

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would lay for our significant others or, you know, maybe the

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gaslighting that we would both do to try and you know, we and

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we did unwrap a lot of stuff in that. And so I would suggest

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that you go back and check that out, she has it on her on her

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podcast, the Borealis experience, she's got an episode

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there, I have the same episode on mine, the nowhere to go, but

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up podcast. So between either one, you'll be able to find it.

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And it's called not proud of our behavior. Because that's really

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where we're at, you know, we're not proud of the way that we

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behaved in the past. And we don't want to continue that into

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the future. And so by talking about it, and you know, kind of

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like diving in and finding out like, you know, why? Why did we

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do the things that we did, and, you know, and other stuff, and

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then also checking in about, you know, how were we triggered in

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any way this, you know, since we've talked, you know, have we

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gone through any sort of things that, you know, were impactful

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or where we had to step back and go, Oh, man, you know, I really

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need to take a look at that, you know, because some of that old

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stuff is starting to come up. Is that kind of like where you feel

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Aurora?

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Oh, yeah, absolutely. Like as soon as I knew that, we were

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going to do The second show on this Thursday, I was like, Oh,

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I'm happy that I can talk about this stuff. And yeah, shed light

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on. In order to dissolve it instead of suppressing it more

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and more and more. And I hope our listeners can feel the same

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way in just listening, we might invite you guys to be guests, or

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to send us emails, of requests. But yeah, I was really looking

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forward to that second episode now, because there was quite

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quite a lot of stuff building up.

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So let's, let's talk about that. Because you mentioned something

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that's really important. What happens when we don't talk about

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this stuff? What happens when we suppress it? Or what happens for

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you, when you suppress these things, and don't really get

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them out and let them sort of fester?

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Um, yeah,

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let's talk about suppression, I think that I become very quiet.

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And when I opened my mouth, it's usually cynical or very

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negative. So I feel shame about my behavior, but don't

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communicate that I feel regret or anything, instead, I attack

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the other person verbally. Or I just give them the silent

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treatment, because I don't want to confront my feelings that are

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roaming inside of me. And the other person is usually, like

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very helpless, and doesn't really know how to approach me

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if I need space, or if I need to be close, and what's going on.

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So I'm totally confusing my partner, and yeah, are maybe

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even passive aggressive. And it's my way to kind of channel

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that pressure out of outside of me. And I know, it's not the way

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to go. It's very disruptive.

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So would you say that if you were more communicative to your

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partner that and kind of bring them in on how you're feeling?

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Do you think that that would kind of help alleviate that

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pressure? And also, any kind of tension? because now you're sort

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of bringing them into the fold of of what the issue is? Do you

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think that that would be a solution?

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Yeah, I'm totally aware that this would be the way to go. But

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I still struggle with it, because I want to solve it on my

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own. I don't want to burden the other person, which doesn't make

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any sense, because how I behave is more exhausting and shitty

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for them than if I was to communicate it. So there's still

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kind of a, that has to be both for me to know, if I communicate

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it. There's a good experience coming out, and I'm still not

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there.

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Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a journey. It really is.

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And, you know, I don't I'm not sitting up here saying that, you

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know, hey, I've got this figured out, you know, this is, you

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know, I'm not I'm not, I'm not trying to sell you a course.

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Right? I'm not trying to sell you a, anything that that's

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telling you that I know, how I that I've fixed myself, I've

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fixed a lot of parts of myself. But there are still those parts

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that that you know, come out. And if I'm not, you know,

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exercising good communication, if I'm not keeping myself in a

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good space. And one of the things that's really important,

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if I'm not acting like, my past is my, like, speaking about my

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past is this, it's as if it's my present. That's a huge, you

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know, because when we talk about things, and like, for me, it's

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like, I'll say, Yeah, well, I'm not very smart at business, or

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I'm not very, I'm not a good business person. Well, that's

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not true. You know, I'm just uninformed about how to do some

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parts of business, which makes me feel like, I'm not good at

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the whole thing. And is, if I'm saying that about myself, I'm

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actually willing it into existence. That what, that this

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is, this is me, this is my truth. And that's not true. And

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so when we can get away from talking about our past as if

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it's our present, altogether, we eliminate that, that that self

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fulfilling prophecy, right? I guess that's what you would call

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it. And so yeah, that's really what what the key is here is

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almost like figuring out how to almost like an addict, right?

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Like a drug addict. You know, they got to figure out out what

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their triggers are, you know, when I feel this way This

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happens when I put myself in these situations over here, this

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happens when I start feeling this way, what am I going to do

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in order to make X, Y and Z not happen, right. And so those are

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like mitigating things, mitigating bad outcomes from

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happening. And a lot of that has to do with just playing the tape

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out, right? Playing the scenario out in your head in before you,

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you respond, you react emotionally, play the tape

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through and respond intelligently. You got anything

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to add to that?

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What I want to add is that, like we're talking eye to eye, I

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don't know if you say that in English, but we're one level and

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every you notice something that I'm doing, like, even just in

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our little interviews here, I take your advice, because I

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don't feel you're above there, and I'm down here. And we have

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different levels of healing. And if you see something where I

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could hear more, feel free to throw that advice in here and I

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will happily receive it. And I might do the same for you if

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that's okay with you. Because at the beginning, he said, At no

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point better than me, but we might have, like different

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levels of healing. And yeah, I totally agree to what you just

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said, in in being fixated on our past and saying, Yeah, this is

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what happened to me in the past. And this is why I'm a victim

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today. And this kind of gives me the green pass to behave that

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way. That is not okay. Are you a victim? Or were you an abuser,

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in both cases, cannot hold yourself in a box? Because

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otherwise, you're going to keep behaving the same way and never

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get out of it? Right? I think that's what what you were saying

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when you talked about the past when we have to look at the past

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and communicate about it. But we can't make it our identity and

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give us excuse to hold on to it more and kind of stay stuck in

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that in that past behavior. Just because we keep repeating the

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story like talking about it. So yeah, very, very to

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it's it's, it's, it's about how we wield our words, right, how

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we how we spin our words and how we you know, the words that we

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use, oftentimes create the story in our head and the narrative,

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right. And a lot of what we do is so second nature, that it is

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subconsciously, it's at the subconscious level, you know,

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the behaviors that we did that we are using, like for myself,

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some of the behaviors that I had were learned behaviors over

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years of bad behavior. Right. And they have been ingrained in

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so ingrained in what I do. From I'll give you a good example. So

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I would come home, like I wouldn't have been doing

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anything wrong. But I may have been somewhere where I shouldn't

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have been, you know, maybe I was at a friend's house or maybe I

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went to stop somewhere. And you know, to spend some money that I

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don't want to fess up about right. Maybe I went and bought

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something for myself and anything, right. And instead of

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just being honest about it, my immediate response was I would

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lie about it. You know, and it would be it was stupid. Like you

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were like this, like, what are you even lying about that? Four?

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That's so dumb. You know, there's no reason there's no

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reason why you should have lied about that. I mean, you wouldn't

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have gotten in trouble. But now when I would have to explain it.

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Yeah, I it's like, I get caught up. In my words. It doesn't seem

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like it seems like I was doing something worse than I was

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actually doing when I'm trying to, you know, live my life my

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way out of it. Right. And it just goes from one to the next

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to the next to the next. I mean, it had all of these adverse

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reactions. And in order to mitigate that, it was just like,

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Man, these are the kind of behaviors that I have. I know

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that I have them. And let's not let those behaviors rule my day.

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Let's not let them control My outcomes for my relationships.

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And let's let's break free of them. And so that's kind of what

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I did. Does that kind of ring true true with you? Or how do

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you feel about that? Did you have any behaviors like that,

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that were like second nature to you that you kind of clung on to

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that kept you not being able to progress? forward?

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Yes, certainly, certainly, for me, lying was also a big part.

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But a bigger part for me was, when I felt triggered, and the

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trigger inside of me brought out feelings of powerlessness and

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inferiority. I would totally like bite onto that problem, and

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be so aggressive with any person that was going to come close to

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me be someone trying to help me, or someone just there while I'm

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still trying to figure stuff out. So that feeling of

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powerlessness. So past week, it was, for instance, my phone that

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just didn't function the way I needed it. And I just kept

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telling myself, this is just a test to the universe is testing

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me if I really want to do that podcast, and it was really like

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a huge stick in my wheels. Like, I couldn't think anymore, I was

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not creative anymore. And the people that live with me, the

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people that surround me here and don't really have an escape

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right now, because of COVID. I was either totally aggressive

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with or totally shut them out. And because I wanted to figure

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that stupid situation out and kind of like, an aggressive

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Pitbull, or you know, who can get out of that mode anymore.

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And yeah, lying is definitely part of that to them. Because

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you kind of try to have the happy face on and keep people

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close and in a good mood and help them out. But then at the

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same time, you build up so much resentment, because you'd rather

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them help you instead of having to put that happy face on. So I

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don't allow myself to look weak in any kind. When I cry, it's

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really because I held back for so many weeks. But everything

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that happens before is trying to protect that soft spot that is

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actually crying for help, but I don't allow it. I don't know if

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that makes any sense. So if that was totally confusing right now.

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No, but that was confusing.

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Yeah. Yeah, no, that wasn't confusing at all. Actually, the

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The funny thing about that is, is that when, when we can show

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other people, our vulnerabilities, right, and our

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weaknesses, those are actually our strengths. Right? The

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ability to do that, but we've got ourselves so fooled, and

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we've inverted the two, we make it seem like if that because I

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have vulnerabilities and because I show weaknesses, like whether

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it's, you know, emotionally or you know, whatever it is for

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you. I mean, it manifests itself differently in everybody. I

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think it's the opposite. I think that when you're in your truth,

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and you're in, you're being authentic, and you're allowing

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people to see the, the vulnerabilities in you. And I

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think that I think that shows great strength.

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Mm hmm.

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Just when you're in it, it is hard to, to then be that

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vulnerable self person, because there's also that weird

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connection of feeling like a burden to others and wanting to

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be strong for others. And if we just know that, no, it's so

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important to be vulnerable, because then the other person

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can be the strong shoulder for you, otherwise they can't,

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otherwise they're there and don't really know how to, like

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behave around you. And if you soften up if you admit what's

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going on inside of you, then you can actually create connection

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and it's, it's a big step. It's a big step to to just let those

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guards down and say, Hey, I reached a point where I need you

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So you have to be so if I'm hearing you, right, so, one, you

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have to be able to communicate these things. Right, that's,

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that's one part of defusing sort of the situation because if

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you're communicating and you're telling people, you know, how

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they can, how they can assist you, or how they can help you

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show up better or how they can show up better, you know, in, in

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the situation, that's one thing, but then the other thing that

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I'm hearing is that doesn't allow you to go any further than

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that. And that's trust and lack of the lack of trust within

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other people because whether it is you know, we're trying to

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protect ourselves, we're not trying to get hurt. I do this a

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lot and I just talked to this earlier to somebody that about

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this earlier. So between my daughter and my dog, I give them

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so much love, right? I am 100% like the kind of loving person

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that you would want your significant other to be like to

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be to get hugs and kisses and and to be playful with them and

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to like you know, be silly and all of the things that you can

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do once you trust somebody fully right and you know that they're

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not going to hurt you I can't I can't do that with with the

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opposite sex. But my girlfriend watches me do that with my dog

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in my in my my daughter all the time.

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Yeah, and she's probably why why not me and because she triggers

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something in you that your daughter and your dog don't

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probably

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won't know it's just a lack of trust. It's because I don't

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trust it's safe. It's safe there right? Because my dog is gonna

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love me unconditionally no matter what. Right? No matter

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what I do my daughter same thing you know of course and you know

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if I did something wrong to her record that's a little bit

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different because it's you're dealing with a human now. But

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you know if you're if you're parenting the right way, you

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want the best for your children. You want your your I want my

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daughter to be safe and I want her to feel loved and I want her

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to feel like she's important and I want her to feel I want her to

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feel like I'll never leave her you know like she like she can

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always count on me to be there for her and I have a hard time

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doing

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yeah

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yeah and I have a hard time doing that with with with my

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girlfriend or any opposite sex for that matter for probably the

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last I would say 15 years you know maybe maybe even 20 years

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there was a point where I just stopped trusting relationships

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and you know for whatever reason probably because I was always

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the one that burned them down. So maybe it will I just didn't

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trust myself. I don't know like i said i'm not we're not a

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mental health counselors. We don't we're not giving you

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mental health advice. We're not giving you relationship advice.

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We're not giving you any kind of advice all we're doing is

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allowing you to be a fly on the wall have a conversation from

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two people that struggled with sort of the same things but on

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different spectrums of it and how we've gotten through it and

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how we are you know, sort of navigating our are navigating

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our way through it.

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Exactly, exactly. Well said. Yeah, wish you is I think at the

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root of like you and I are problem because if we were to

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trust people fully we wouldn't need to lie we will need to hide

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we will need to come up with some stupid manipulative ways to

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keep people interested in us and stuff so what can we do about

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this? How can we be like you and I are with our dogs How can we

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be those warm trusting people that's that's what I would love

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to Yeah, no and this is my goal. This is where I want to end up

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one day and I feel what we're doing right now like it's only

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the second episode I feel so much better already. Talking

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about this and finding stuff about ourselves that can help us

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to to get there.

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Yeah, I agree. So you let's let's move into something else

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because we're I what I'd like to try and do with these is keep

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them to about a half an hour because those are consumable

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pieces. When we start getting into To the to the half to the

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half to the not to have over the 45 and one hour timeframes. I

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feel like it unless you're driving super content, but even

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then, it's I feel like the 30 minute mark is is the sweet

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spot. I used to think it was 60. But now I believe it's 30. So

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tell me, tell me what what you've been going through. And

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I'll kind of check in on what I'm what my week's been through,

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it might take us a little bit longer than 30 minutes, but

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we're gonna try and do this and then and then wrap up.

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Hmm. Yeah, so for me, it was a person from my poem who, like

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wanted to keep in touch with me again. And yeah, for the last

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year, I was very good at holding that person at distance. Because

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Yeah, we went through some stuff where I behaved. Not good. And

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his behavior was not awesome, either. But I felt my behavior

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was more destructive. Because I needed to end things they were

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not good for me anymore. And so now to going on a walk with that

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person again and talking about that brought back all kinds of

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Yeah, memories and guilt feelings and regrets that I

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didn't know how to channel out in how to I don't want to say

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behave around, but how to get rid of maybe even. So it was all

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stuck inside of me because I thought I can't really talk

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about this with anybody, because nobody knows what was really

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going on. I kept everything to myself back then. And I'm just

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gonna keep doing the same now. So I found myself really pushing

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people away, that wanted to be close with me and getting like

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rashes and headaches and sleepless nights and feeling

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very uninspired, like not worthy of doing my podcast even

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anymore. And so it was a huge mess in my head and in my life.

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So to say, and, and now I'm feeling better.

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But it

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was being reminded of the past, I think of my past behavior that

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totally threw me off of my solid train tracks that I thought I

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was. What was it for you soon? Or if you want to add something

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to this, feel free?

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Yeah, that's why it's important, you know, because sometimes when

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we think that we have it, we have it licked. Right, I guess

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you would say, Oh, I got this. I got this, and I'm not even

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trippin. I'm gonna that's not even a problem anymore. But

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that's, that's your that's your subconscious tricking your ass.

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Right? Because, you know, what? What are you going to do? If if

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that footing isn't so solid? Right? What, what, what is your,

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I guess you would say a word for that is like, what's your

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parachute? You know, what's it? What are you going to fall back

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on? You know, what is your plan? to not have to go through this

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and what I mean by what is your plan. So I'm going to give an

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analogy here. I'm an addict, I suffered from addiction, for

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method of methamphetamines. I was addicted for 18 years. Then

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I went into a seven year opiate addiction on pain pills. So when

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I went and had surgery on my arm, it's been, you know, over

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two years, since I've taken painkillers, I got prescribed

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painkillers. And so what I had to do is I had to have a plan,

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because I knew that they were going to offer them to me. So

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what am I going to do about that? Right? Am I gonna not take

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them? Am I gonna take them? Or like, like, what does that look

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like? And so I created a plan before I even went to the

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surgery, I had gotten my girlfriend to agree like, Hey,

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man, when we bring these pills home, because I'm not gonna not

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gonna take because I don't want to, I don't want to feel pain.

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If this is gonna help me through it. I'm cool with it. But I want

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you to hold on to them. And don't allow me to overuse them.

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Because I probably will.

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Yeah.

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And so and then, and then too, when the doctor came and asked

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me how many pills that I wanted. I mean, I guess I could have

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said 50. I could have said I mean 100 would have been way too

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much. But I just said Just give me 20 of them. I'm cool with

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that way, you know, that's a good amount to get me through

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the beginning part, and you get what I'm saying. So you got to

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have a plan and that's and that goes the same way. way for when

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you're trying to deal with people or you're trying to deal

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with your old behaviors, you got to have a plan for when they

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show up, right? For when that that stuff comes out, and you

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haven't dealt with it, or you haven't talked it out, or you

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haven't talked to somebody close to you to like relief relief,

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the pressure valve, right? Sorry, let some of that let some

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of that out. And that happens when when you talk to people

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like what we're doing right now, that's, that's letting some of

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that pressure out. Some of what I want to talk talk about in

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word 30. So when I was in my using in my addiction with my X,

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hey, Louis, how are you? Um, we. So my behavior when I was an

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addict, with my ex, my, my daughter's mom's, I have two

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daughters, one of them I had when I was younger, and she's

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21. Now, I got those parental rights taken away from me. And

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her mom, her mom filed to have my rights terminated. Because

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not because of anything that I did to my daughter or anything

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like that, but just because of my behavior and my addiction. I

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had done something, you know, she, I kind of screwed her over

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pretty big time. And so that was her way of doing it. I could

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have contested it, but I chose not to. I chose not to because I

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chose addiction in my in partying over, over my my

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responsibilities as a father. And so I yeah, and so I excused

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it away by saying, you know what, she's probably better off

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without me. And you know, I made all these excuses in my mind as

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to why this would be the best choice for, for for me, you

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know, but but disguising it as the best choice for her. Right?

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That little level game we played to rationalize our behavior. So

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fast forward, I went to prison, all that happened, I would lie

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about it when I tell the story. And I would say that, oh, yeah,

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she waited till I went to prison. And then she had me

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served. That's, that's bullshit. That didn't happen that way. I

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chose not I chose not to, to contest it not show up and party

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in and not come to the court date. So three, you know, years

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have gone by I went I you know, I got out of prison. And I found

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them. And I made contact. You know, I didn't talk to him. I

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didn't do any of that stuff. But I mean, I talked to him through

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messenger. And then not too, not maybe about two, two years ago,

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I found her on Instagram. And we've been talking back and

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forth. I, I don't I didn't know how to navigate that situation.

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Because it's like, yeah, I'm your biological dad. But I'm not

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your father. Right? Because a father is all these other things

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that I didn't do. Right? Like, I would consider myself a father

Unknown: 00:33:18

to my daughter, my daughter that I have now my three and a half

Unknown: 00:33:21

year old, because I'm involved in her life. I'm there every

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day. I'm you know, supporting her physically, financially,

Unknown: 00:33:30

mentally, and all that stuff. And this one I didn't do that

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for so it just like navigating that whole system, like what do

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you even like, where do you even start with that, right? And so I

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kind of half assed the, sometimes I would say, Hey, you

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know, sometimes I just get busy and not say anything. So what I

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think happened is it made her seem or feel like I wasn't

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interested. Like,

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I don't, you know, I don't want to kind of be in your I mean, I

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could be in your life, or I could not be in your life, you

Unknown: 00:34:02

know, I could take it or leave it. That's kind of like, what I

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think what I was presenting. And so that went on for a while. And

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just recently, within the last, I would say three or four days,

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she's reached out to me, and wants to have a relationship and

Unknown: 00:34:21

wants to get to know me and wants to go down that path of,

Unknown: 00:34:26

you know, whatever that is, and, you know, whatever that's going

Unknown: 00:34:30

to look like for us as we're trying to figure this out. And I

Unknown: 00:34:35

knew that I knew that. I knew there would be a day that this

Unknown: 00:34:38

would be that, that possibly this could happen, right?

Unknown: 00:34:42

Because everybody always said, Well, you know, most daughters

Unknown: 00:34:45

want to know who their dad are, who their dad is, and she's

Unknown: 00:34:48

always gonna want to know that and she's gonna want to know

Unknown: 00:34:51

what the story is. You know, cuz she'll hear one from her mom,

Unknown: 00:34:55

which I don't know what that is. I haven't even we haven't even

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gotten even into that and I don't really even care you No,

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that's not, that doesn't matter to me. We were both probably way

Unknown: 00:35:03

different people back then than we are now. So that's kind of

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where I'm at. And that's the the things that I'm dealing with

Unknown: 00:35:12

this week. And so there's a part of me that's really, really

Unknown: 00:35:16

happy. And wow, that, yeah, that maybe I might get a chance to,

Unknown: 00:35:31

to fix those mistakes, right? That I had in the past, and I

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don't know what that's gonna look like. I don't know what

Unknown: 00:35:50

that's gonna look like. And it's kind of scary.

Unknown: 00:36:00

It is scary, because it's very uncertain. And at the same time,

Unknown: 00:36:05

it's so big and beautiful. And it could finally help you to let

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go of all the guilt and shame that you felt around that story.

Unknown: 00:36:13

Right?

Unknown: 00:36:17

Oh, sorry, everybody didn't mean to, to get there. But there's a

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lot more. There's a lot more under that than that. I you

Unknown: 00:36:27

know, I'm kind of like trying to hold back. But when, when that

Unknown: 00:36:32

time actually comes when we actually meet again, and it's

Unknown: 00:36:37

been since she was 18 months. The last time I seen her she was

Unknown: 00:36:40

18 months old. And she's 21 now, and I'm probably going to lose

Unknown: 00:36:47

my shit. I'm not gonna lie. I'm probably gonna cry like a

Unknown: 00:36:51

fucking baby. And like, like the convulsion kind, right? The

Unknown: 00:36:57

uncontrollable kind? Because there's a lot of pain wrapped in

Unknown: 00:37:00

there, man.

Unknown: 00:37:02

Exactly. Yeah. And for so long, my God, 21 years and but you

Unknown: 00:37:09

know what, I think it's exactly that reaction that every

Unknown: 00:37:13

daughter, who is seeking out her dad secretly wants, you know,

Unknown: 00:37:19

wants the emotional, soft and warm kind of reaction and

Unknown: 00:37:26

embracing her and just being happy that everything is over

Unknown: 00:37:31

now, and you guys get to have a new start.

Unknown: 00:37:35

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited. But I'm scared either. I have all these

Unknown: 00:37:39

emotions. Hey, joy, how are you? Thanks for joining the

Unknown: 00:37:42

broadcast. Joy is one of my patreon subscribers and one of

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my people that support the show and appreciate you. It's

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probably not assigned to you that you probably thought you

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would see from me, but

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a very beautiful one.

Unknown: 00:38:03

So yeah, we have so so here we go. If we're gonna wrap this up

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here, cuz it'd be 40 minutes is cool. If you want to be on the

Unknown: 00:38:15

show, if you want to reach out to the show, you got a story

Unknown: 00:38:19

that that, you know, maybe you were one of these people, or

Unknown: 00:38:23

maybe you were somebody who was on the other side of it, and was

Unknown: 00:38:28

affected by an abusive person. And you and you, and if you

Unknown: 00:38:33

don't, if you want to come on the show, write an email, right?

Unknown: 00:38:36

shoot us an email and let us know, the email will be GGG let

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me find it. Nowhere to go, but up now@gmail.com you go. Go

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right there. And put together an email, if you don't want to be

Unknown: 00:38:55

on the show, and you just want to give us your story. And maybe

Unknown: 00:38:58

we'll read it on air. And, you know, and answer questions about

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it. That's, that's possible, too. You can do that as well.

Unknown: 00:39:06

You know, like I said, the point here is to get real, and get

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vulnerable, and get honest with who we were. And until we can do

Unknown: 00:39:22

that, or you can do that if you're somebody who's struggling

Unknown: 00:39:25

with some of the same things. You're never going to progress

Unknown: 00:39:29

until you get real and honest with who you were. And the only

Unknown: 00:39:36

way over over stuff like that is through it. And talking about it

Unknown: 00:39:41

and not hiding from it. And being honest about it has been

Unknown: 00:39:47

one of the key things that has made it so I can heal from it,

Unknown: 00:39:53

honestly. And so, you know, that's just what I want my own

Unknown: 00:39:58

message there. Do you got anything parting words.

Unknown: 00:40:02

Those are very, very beautiful words. And all I can add is that

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it be so wonderful to have more people sharing their stories

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here. And we're all in this together, we can all learn from

Unknown: 00:40:16

each other. And we can support each other through that time of

Unknown: 00:40:22

change and uncertainty, because it's sometimes very scary to let

Unknown: 00:40:26

go of an old story and pain and how how am I who am I when I

Unknown: 00:40:32

don't feel pain when I don't feel shame? So don't hesitate.

Unknown: 00:40:38

And yeah, support our little show here and do yourself good

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to

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thank you. Thank you joy, we appreciate that. And then also

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two words, we're still working things out, you know, we did the

Unknown: 00:40:51

last one on zoom. And I didn't like the audio, this one here

Unknown: 00:40:55

looks like it may have a little bit of issues with with your

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your connection, because it's you're blurry, but the audio is

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good. So that's really what this is, is like we want to do with

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these anyways, is that we want we wanted better audio. So we

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used stream yard so we can both upload these. What's that?

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Sorry, sorry, that's

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the home phone.

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Alright, and so we want to be able to put these up on our

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podcast platforms, you know, on the like, like iTunes, Spotify.

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And so we're gonna take the audio from this, and then she'll

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upload them to her her podcast, which is the Borealis

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experience. Go ahead and play actually go ahead and plug plug

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which where you are.

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Um, so yeah, the Borealis experience is on Spotify, on

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Apple on Deezer, and many, many other platforms, you can visit

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my homepage, the boreal experience.com and listen there,

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or you will be directed to your favorite host.

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Yes. All right. And then also for me, you know, you can you

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can contact me at the email there, or you can go to my link

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tree, which is probably the easiest place up, same thing,

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it's probably the easiest place to get ahold of me, because

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that's for every place that I'm at, you can go and support my

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nonprofit, if you want to learn more about that you can go and

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you know, if you like what I'm doing, and you you know, want to

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buy me a coffee, you can do that as well, that there's tabs in

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that link tree to buy me a coffee, you can do comments per

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subscriber like joy is to my Patreon, where you know, you can

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be a $1.02 to 135 and $10 levels of where you can, you can

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subscribe and each tier has different perks. So you can go

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over there and figure all that out. And I believe all of that

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is available in the description, direct links to all that stuff,

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especially in and for Aurora herself. So if you like what

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we're doing, and you think that this is a good idea, please let

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us know, reach out and let us know what we can do different

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topics that you think that we can talk about that fit in with

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this sort of narrative here. And we'd like to hear from you.

Unknown: 00:43:27

Yes.

Unknown: 00:43:28

Alright. So until, yeah, thank you, again, Aurora. I really

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appreciate that. And, you know, until next time, we're going to

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try and figure out a schedule to do this maybe every two weeks,

Unknown: 00:43:42

maybe every three weeks. I'm not sure exactly where we're at with

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it. This is the second time that we've done it. So go check out

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the first one. Because if you want to learn who we were in the

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kind of behavior that we that we did, that's all in that first

Unknown: 00:43:55

episode. So yes, I hope you guys have a great rest of your week.

Unknown: 00:44:01

great weekend. Figure out if you struggle with any of this stuff.

Unknown: 00:44:08

You know, figure it out. And if you're struggling with something

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to the point where you don't know if you're gonna hurt

Unknown: 00:44:13

yourself or somebody else, seek out help call the hotlines,

Unknown: 00:44:17

which we should have, you know, that's what we should do the

Unknown: 00:44:20

next time we should have like links and phone numbers for

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suicide prevention and mental health emergencies and stuff

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like that, that we can flash up as well. Because since we are

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not licensed counselors, the least that we can do is direct

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you to a place where you can get some help from people that that

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are licensed.

Unknown: 00:44:43

Yes. Very good idea, Shawn.

Unknown: 00:44:45

Yeah. All right. So we're out of here. Have a great weekend. And

Unknown: 00:44:51

keep it 100 and stay true to yourself.

Unknown: 00:44:55

Yes,

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thank you so much, john, and you soon again.

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Bye