But can you go through what makes you tick? what gives you hope and allows you to find that strength to help others?

I think when you go through so much of pain and like, you know, I have gone through polio when I was two and then gone through so many challenges growing up in India as a girl, you know, everybody wanted a perfect girl, you know, then gone through abuse when I was growing older.

And it's about, you know, how people around us make us feel that there is always something wrong with you.

You're never enough, whether to somebody else's definition.

And I remember trying to fit in and wanted to be normal, wanted to be accepted by my peers, by my parents.

But that pain of not knowing that you're enough It's just very deep.

So I've gone through many challenges.

To be strong, to

So this is not a pretty story.

Oh, I'm like, again, so sorry for it.

I think luckily I found good health in the sense because I had good knowledge of spirituality and things like that.

What I what helped me really was me doing daily meditations and Reiki on myself, healing my heart and healing, you know, my children.

And but I think, again, my both boys and me, we are very different.

Both boys are very different from each other.

So whenever they were feeling down, I said, okay, you need, you know, therapy, you need talk therapy.

We will have grief wives in kindergarten, in school system, because they are needed in, in child protective service and school system.

so people understand that part of you.

Thank you.

So yeah, Mahesh [laughs] is my dear husband.

Um, you know, we met in India in 1997, and it was like, you know, people I was, um ...

My parents were looking for boys for me for arranged marriage.

And of course, you know, when they, the boys were meeting me, they would like me, and as soon as I will share that I had polio, they would just like, "Oh my God," you know, it's like, we don't want to go there kind of thing.

Um, so me and Mahesh met, uh, by chance.

But, um, but yeah, take us through what, how, what happened next and that part of the journey.