I shouldn't be kind of forcing ourselves to feel differently about something that maybe we don't have control over in that moment.

Yeah.

It starts with understanding that the shame and guilt that we feel in that moment is very similar to the shame and guilt we felt as children when we were made to feel as if we did something wrong.

So we are still responding from that child self, from that wounded inner child part.

We're responding from that.

Therefore, it feels very real, but it's not really, it's something from the past.

And those feelings have to be experienced, not just talked about, experienced within the safety of the therapy relationship, within the safety of the therapy room.

And that's also a big buzzword, right? I think there's a lot of pressure around what does it mean to be authentic? And so I love to ask every guest how you would define or describe living your most authentic life.