What feels right

in this moment for me is just to say that I've been a motherless daughter forever.

for so long that I've experienced motherlessness in almost every experience of my life.

So my mom died when I was 14.

That's very young.

And so I was motherless in that moment and every moment since.

And because she was not present, in her body, in her spirit, in her soul, in her awareness of herself here on the planet for the first 14 years, I really never had a mom.

Well,

Yes.

And yet I was not the mediator or perhaps have any conflict resolution skills that I would have today, which has obviously been part of my journey.

And yeah, it's a complex one.

And so I guess for that reason, I actually, I don't really talk about my family origin so much, but one thing that I like to constantly tell people about today, I've told the story already twice today.

I can't control myself is actually what mediation is.

or mediation training specifically, helped me change within myself.

Because certainly in my early 20s, in the workplace before that, like every single school report would be like, Laura needs to learn tact.

So would you do that pre-work, that sort of pre-coaching yourself and then go on to the mediation? And then how do you stay impartial in that if you're doing that sort of pre-work?