I've never considered that our ailments could present as us rejecting our true self ever.

Absolutely.

So I think the most practical way I can explain this for the people on the call, I'm sure a large majority of your community are familiar with these ideas and maybe some it's kind of new.

But we now live in a time where a lot of people understand energy and that everything in the universe is energy.

So our physical body is energy or atoms vibrating at a slower frequency.

Whereas our spirit or the light in our eyes or the air that we breathe is energy that's vibrating at a faster frequency, which makes it light or ethereal and not physical matter.

If people think about their physics or chemistry one-on-one, think about the states of water.

I'm Just Like Me is available now wherever you get your books.

Could you talk just a little bit about the work you do so that our listeners who may not be aware of your amazing presence, they can feel some sort of connection to how you work in the world?

Thank you, Karla.

I think I'll start with how I got started so that everybody has a sense for the personal where this comes from.

As a teenager, was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and that became my coping mechanism for my own trauma and the pain that I experienced growing up.

And around the age of 17, I basically sabotaged everything that I cared about, loved, and identified with.

I was coming home from a party when I was 17, and I was on a bunch of Xanax and cannabis and liquor- And I got to a freight train in the middle of the night and I couldn't keep my eyes open.

And so I was delirious, and I put my car in park, thankfully, and I put my head back and I fell asleep on the road in front of the guardrails of the train tracks, and I woke up to police knocking on the window.

Did I pull that together in the way, Blake, that you intended?