What else can we tell the audience quickly about you and your work before we dive into our, to our topic here?

Well, I think part of it is, um, you know, it's so interesting how we get to where we are, and there's been so much new to learn about trauma in the last 10, 15 years for sure, um, and also about complex PTSD or developmental trauma.

So I've been affected by both of those, and in 2005, I was physically assaulted when I was riding my bicycle to work, and I was diagnosed with PTSD.

And at the time, I would say that, and people would go, "What's PTSD?" Because nobody knew what it was, or if they did know something, it was all, "Well, you...

Were you in the military?" Like, you know, that was really all most people knew about it, and if you look at that now-

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I enjoy that.

[laughs] I think one of the reasons I do part of what I do is because it's so helpful, and not everybody can afford to do individual therapy, uh, but everybody can do this.

course, most people didn't

back then.

I was in my late 30s at the time.

And I really just discovered that I could be with myself in a way that I had never been before.

and that I could learn about the mind and that I could actually experience peace.

So that was something I had never really known before.

I'd had a pretty traumatic teen years and was bullied and shamed and at the time didn't really think anything about that.

So I'm going to walk into a room where nobody knows me.