I wonder if you'd start by just, um, maybe sharing a little bit about yourself and where you come from and how come you do this work.

Yeah, absolutely.

[clears throat] Excuse me.

So, um, I like to say I'm the biological makeup of two alcoholics and addicts.

Unfortunately, when I was around six weeks old, they lost custody of me as a result of their trials and tribulations.

And so I was adopted and raised by a single mother from that age, who I call my mom.

And if you were raised by a single parent or know single parents, you see the amount of stress that they carry being able to fill both of those roles.

Mm

Can you just go ahead and introduce yourself and give us just a little overview of who you are, your family and what you do?

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I'll start by saying at the time of this recording, I'm a mom of a three and a half year old little girl.

And my journey into the work I do now starts from when I was a little girl.

So my biological parents were addicts and alcoholics.

And at the age of six weeks old, I was actually removed from their custody and was raised by a single mom.

Yeah, I want to dig into that a little bit more, kind of that disconnection that can come when we're in survival mode and just kind of laying out the fact that in motherhood we oftentimes feel like we're in survival mode whether that's because of just those little stressors that like you said can set us off of like oh my god i'm gonna die this predator's chasing me and it's like no it's just a little minor inconvenience that's happening but also there's just so much pressure and so many factors that lead to so many of us feeling at some point or another like we are in survival mode How does that lead to a disconnection from self?