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... by asking, how were emotions handled in my family of origin? Or how were emotions not handled in my family of origin? How have I come onto this journey? What are my current relationships with emotion? But as you were talking earlier about rewriting our motherhood code, if I were to rewrite my relationship with emotions, what would I seek that relationship to be like, feel like? Because it is within you-

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... single emotion has a message for you.

And if you begin to embark upon a journey of I, I'm curious, I'm interested, what is the meaning, what is the message that this particular emotion has for me? And that will be your entry doorway- Into creating a healthy relationship.

It takes time.

It's a path.

And so this inside-out conversation, I'm curious,

when I say that out loud, what comes up for you? So much.

I hardly know where to begin.

So anyone listening who even remotely understands can relate to this concept of feeling like you have achieved so much and you've put your heart and your soul and your energy and your efforts and you have this, whether it's a career, whether it's a book, whether it's your own community, whatever it is, but you find yourself like this just isn't worth it, then this is the episode for you, in my humble opinion, because I can so relate to it.

So there's so many different angles, so many different doorways, through which we could walk and have this conversation.

But first of all, I want to say for anyone who is remotely experiencing this, it could be that you're a mom of three children and you've poured your heart and soul into checking all the boxes, doing all the things, and you're going, is this really worth it? It's not bringing me what I was told it was supposed to bring me, you know, that quality of life and that joy.

And so I, first of all, say let us as women have so much compassion for ourselves because I guess the doorway I'll go through here is that we, at least our generation, has been really indoctrinated through culture to live our life in a very toxically masculine way.

What do you mean? Am I just supposed to quit my job and go run through the fields of wildflowers and go