E4: When healing hurts more than the original offense

"When Healing Hurts More Than the Original Offense," an episode dedicated to exploring the challenges and complexities of emotional healing. In this episode, we will discuss why healing can hurt more than the original offense, and how we can navigate the painful journey of emotional healing.

When we experience emotional trauma, our brains and bodies often go into survival mode. We may develop coping mechanisms, such as avoidance or numbing, in order to protect ourselves from further pain. While these coping mechanisms may have served us in the past, they can become barriers to healing in the present.

We will also explore the neuroscience of emotional and physical pain, and how our brains register emotional pain and physical pain in similar ways. This highlights the importance of taking emotional pain seriously, and taking steps to heal and address it.

Throughout the episode, we will provide tips and strategies for nurturing and caring for ourselves during the healing process. We will discuss the importance of self-compassion, building a support system, prioritizing self-care, engaging in creative expression, practicing mindfulness, seeking professional help, and setting realistic goals for ourselves.

Ultimately, the journey of emotional healing can be challenging and painful, but it's also an opportunity for growth, healing, and transformation. By acknowledging the pain of healing, and by taking steps to care for ourselves during the process, we can move towards a place of greater wholeness and well-being.

So, join us for "When Healing Hurts More Than the Original Offense: Navigating the Painful Journey of Emotional Healing," and discover how you can navigate the challenges of emotional healing with self-compassion, self-care, and resilience.

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Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Positive Voice Podcast. I am your host, Coach Chef Kim, and I am so excited, so thrilled that you are joining me for today's podcast episode. So earlier this week, I was driving in my car listening to a new audiobook, and I was, you know, kind of halfway listening, um, also kind of meditating and thinking about all the changes that are happening in my life. And um I heard the author say this line sometimes the healing process hurts more than the original offense. That might not be quoted exactly, but that's what I took away from it. And that thing arrested me in my spirit, and I was like, yeah, yeah, and and we don't talk about that enough. So if you will indulge me, today's episode is going to be about the fact that sometimes your healing journey will hurt you more than the thing that caused the pain in the first place. So if we if we keep it real simple, right? A heartbreak. If you're an adult and you've been in a relationship, we've all experienced this. Um, there are some heartbreaks that hurt more than others. Some relationships ending can cause a change in who we are, it can cause a shift in how we move in the world, it can cause a shift in how we show up in the world, right? And so, you know, sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes it's a bad thing. And as I think about the particular journey that I'm on right now, um, when I was going through the interview process to change schools and go for my doctorate, the questions were a little different. And one of the questions was, what got you to this point? Like, what brought you here right now? And that is a multifaceted answer. It's not just one thing. Like, I didn't wake up and decide, oh, I'm gonna go for a PhD. Um, there were multiple things that happened. The decision is the culmination of my children being older and me having more time. Um, me being divorced and having a completely different outlook on my life because the life that I thought I was going to have will never happen. And so now I'm reimagining what my life is going to look like as we move forward. I'm in a different space uh post-injury, having degenerative discs in my neck that cause my fingers to go numb and cause me to have to uh move in this world very differently than I did before 2020 changes who you are. The fact that I've lived through a pandemic also changes the way I view the world and the way that I see things, right? Having adult children versus having little children and helping them navigate the ups and downs of being an adult and having to move in this world in a particular way because the world no longer sees you as a child and you now have responsibilities you've never had. All of those things created a situation for me where getting a PhD makes sense. So it's it's not just one thing that brought me to this point, it's a combination of the last three years of my life, right? And so when I think about what the author said, that healing um sometimes hurts more than the original offense. When I think about getting divorced, the divorce didn't hurt. The grieving of the life that I thought I was going to have with my ex-husband. Now that hurt. But the divorce process itself, that didn't hurt. When I think about um, you know, other relationships that were prior to my marriage, there was that I can remember and I can put my finger on. There was one heartbreak that hurt more. It literally felt like my heart was breaking, right? And a lot of us have been through that. That young love, that first love, when it doesn't work out, and you're like, oh my god, I feel my heart breaking, how will I ever go on? And people often discredit that, they downplay young people and the big emotions that they're feeling, and they tell them it's just puppy love, or they tell them that it wasn't real, or they tell them that they're being dramatic. And if you are a person, young or old, who has experienced a level of emotional pain and strife that felt like it was physically ripping out your heart. I'm here to tell you that neuroscience has proven that the same areas of the brain fire off when you are physically hurt and when you are emotionally hurt. So you can you can rest assured that what felt like your heart was breaking, you really felt it. Um, because your brain is registering it, it doesn't matter if it's physical or emotional, pain is pain, and so you're going to feel it. So hopefully that that may give um some sort of validation or confirmation for people who have been invalidated in their feelings, because I totally understand what that feels like, but I digress and we move on. So when we're thinking about the healing journey, and you know this, it's called a healing journey, right? It's not like, oh, I scraped my knee and now I'm healed, right? Like when we're little kids or even adults, if you hurt your skin, you know, like you get a paper cut or something, we're gonna put a band-aid on it, we'll put some ointment on it, uh, you know, we'll take something and it will alleviate the pain. And in a couple of days, our skin is going to rejuvenate itself, it's it's gonna, you know, close up the hole. You might have a scar, but you can use something like cocoa butter or Vaseline, and it will help smooth it all back down. That's not necessarily the case when you're emotionally hurt. So while sometimes we have physical scars, um, a lot of times we have emotional scars that people will never see. And then there are emotional scars that people will see. It's called a healing journey for a reason because it doesn't just go away. As much as we want to be like, oh, I heal from that, we're gonna move on. That's just not how things work. And so when we when we think about um, you know, your healing journey hurting more than the original offense, I can tell you one of the experiences that I had, and I know that this has been an experience that other people have had, it was from emotional trauma where I was physically assaulted. Um, I held on to the story, I held on to the trauma, and I carried it by myself for 25 years. And once I went to therapy for it, you know, I I did the things they told me to do. Um, and then I had to go through the process of telling a community of people about the offense that I had suffered. And while I had carried the offense for 25 years and it wasn't that big of a deal to me, I can tell you right now, the thing that hurt me worse was the community of people that I shared the offense with, telling me I didn't have the right to tell this story, telling me that I should have kept my mouth shut, telling me that I should have taken that information to the grave, people questioning why I decided 25 years later to have a me too moment, people questioning what was my motive, and in return being left unsupported by a community of people who I have trusted with my life that hurt more than the original offense. Now, while I go into that into more detail in my book, um for the purpose of this podcast, here's what I want to tell people who have experienced emotional trauma and you went and confided in somebody and they did not respond to you the way that you thought they were going to respond. There's a couple of things that I've learned over the years since this situation happened to me. Um, number one, if these are members of your family of origin, I need you to start using the term family of origin and not just family. Number two, you will have to find chosen community, you will have to find chosen family who can support you and love you in the way that you want to. Number three, everybody is not emotionally mature enough to handle the weight of what you have experienced, and I need you to hear that sincerely. Everybody is not emotionally mature enough to handle the weight of your experience because what I learned in my process was I was talking to a community of people who never dealt with their own trauma. I was talking to a community of people who were raised to put the trauma on the back burner because there were other things they needed to do and this wasn't important. And so for generations, we passed down the idea that you are not important, that you don't matter. This takes place a lot in our society, and while people don't want to believe it, I'm gonna prove it to you. You ready? Here we go. If you were ever told children are to be seen and not heard, that is perpetuating the idea that you don't matter. If you are a child whose parents never taught them how to handle their big emotions. So, for example, during the terrible two phase or the treacherous three phase, when you as a child are not equipped to handle the fact that you're hot, you're cold, you're hungry, you don't know what you want. So you start screaming at the top of your lungs, and in return, that is met with a blow to the body, as opposed to someone getting down on your level and having a conversation with you to teach you how to handle your big emotions. You triggered the person that hit you. You triggered whatever person was responsible for teaching you how to handle big emotions. So instead of raising up a generation of children who know how to handle their emotions, it was met with physical violence. Spare the rod and spoil the child. I want somebody to show me that in the Bible and tell me the Bible tells you to beat your children because it doesn't. What we are missing in this psychologically is that we have a bunch of adults walking around who were never taught how to handle their emotions. If you don't know how to handle your emotions, how are you gonna raise children who know how to handle theirs? And so instead of you facing the fact that maybe the adult needs a timeout and not the child, because if your child is doing what they should be doing, that's age appropriate, and you as the parent are becoming triggered by this, maybe you need to time out. Maybe this is a lesson for you to learn that you were never taught how to handle your big emotions. Now, was I a perfect parent and my children were little? Absolutely not. Do I put myself directly in the oh, you are stepping on my toes right now? Absolutely, absolutely. But when you know better, you do better, right? And so what we have to understand is that adults who are incapable of handling their own emotions are equally incapable of raising children who know how to handle theirs. And when this continues for generations, we pass down generational trauma that becomes so normalized, we call it culture. If we had the tools to handle an amygdala hijack, and let's take a moment to learn a new phrase today, okay? When you see a little kid cutting a fool in Target and they have fallen out on the floor, and the mother looks like she's at her wit's end and they don't know what's happening. Go speak to the kid. Get down on their level, don't raise your voice, and just speak to them very, very softly to find out what's wrong, right? Um, a lot of kids these days have sensory issues and no one's asking them. We're just assuming the kid is bad as hell. That's not necessarily the case. Some children are falling out on the floor for attention. Some children are falling out on the floor because they quite literally don't know what to do. Now, the children falling out because they need attention, that's a whole different conversation. The children falling out because they don't know what to do, those are the ones I'm talking about. All right. So if these children are falling out and they don't know why, right? Like if you ask them what's wrong and they're like, I don't know. Before you yell at that kid, or before you get in your feelings about it, I want you as an adult to think about the number of times you didn't know what to do. So the same way that adults are like, oh my God, I'm just so overwhelmed, I don't know what to do. So is that child who has not had the experiences that you have had. Okay, okay. So this is what we call an amygdala hijack, where the amygdala in the brain has literally hijacked all executive functioning and you don't know what to do. This is when people go on rampages, when people start throwing things, when people say, Oh my god, I blacked out and didn't know this was happening, it's an amygdala hijack. So, how do you stop it? The easiest way I tell people to go push a wall. That sounds crazy, but hear me out. So, number one, the wall is not going anywhere, and number two, it's cold. So if you're pushing up against something that's hard and it's cold, it gives your brain enough time to click back in and go, Hold on, why are we pushing a wall? What's happening? When I keep my younger cousins or godchildren or my niece, and somebody starts flipping out, I tell them, go push the wall. Go push the wall. Just go ahead. You're not gonna hurt the wall, go push the wall. Don't run into it, just go push it with your hand. And it gives their brain enough time to catch up with all these big emotions that they're having. And then I turn to them and I say, Are you okay now? And they're like, Yes. And they're about ready to crack up because why did you just tell me to go push a wall? I'm not yelling at you. I know how to regulate my own emotions to know that this is not happening because of me, it's happening because you're having an amygdala hijack. Okay, so if I'm helping you through your emotions, it also means that I am maintaining my own. I have separated myself from the situation. And so do this as an adult. Something is wrong. One of the things we used to do in culinary school was we used to hold ice. Um, we would hold ice in our hands because when you start going through the I don't know what to do, I'm starting to freak out, I'm gonna have a panic attack. Well, if you hold ice, it's gonna do a couple of things. Number one, it's cold, it registers to your brain. Something is cold. Um, and then number two, the water's gonna start dripping. And for some people, especially if you have a sensory issue, um, that's gonna feel weird. Like, why is there water dripping down my arm? Right? So it helps bring you back to center, and now your focus is on something else and off of whatever it was that was overwhelming you. So there are ways for you to figure out am I in the middle of an amygdala hijack? Am I in the middle of an emotions crisis? It's something I like to call it. Am I having big emotions right now and I don't know what to do with them? Are you? Like, ask yourself that question and be gentle with yourself. Talk to yourself like a child. I say it all the time. Whenever we have a response to something, we're responding like a child because that's when we built up our defense mechanisms. That's when we built up the way that we walk through this world. You were six or seven years old when you created the way you respond to things you don't like. Okay. So are you responding like a child? Yes. Yes, you are, and that's okay. We're gonna help grow you up, okay? So this is what I want you to think about. When we experience emotional trauma, um, your brain and your body is gonna go into survival mode. You may start coping mechanisms uh that you are used to, like avoidance or like you're just not gonna talk to somebody, right? Uh, particularly if you were a kid who was sent to your room whenever you got on an adult nerves. Oh my god, your natural instinct is going to be to go be by yourself because that's what you were taught, right? Um, so while it was punishment for you as a kid, it was reprieve for your parents in the moment. But as an adult, it's now a toxic trait. So you may go into your coping mechanisms such as avoidance or numbing if you do drugs or alcohol or you need to get high. Um, if you go to the gym and you work out more than you should, that's numbing. Um, and it you do these things in order to protect yourself from any further pain, right? So these are things that have served us well in our past, and but they can also be a barrier to your healing. So when you're going through the healing journey, like uh a lot of times we maybe get triggered when we see the person, the place, or the thing, or even a smell that reminds us of the trauma, right? Um, if whenever we are brought face to face with something that reminds us of that trauma, our immediate reaction is going to be fight or flight. We're going into survival mode. It doesn't matter how healed we are, we're going into survival mode. And so you have to learn how to confront that pain, um, how to confront it head on. It's difficult, it's uncomfortable, it may require us to relive painful moments. Um, another thing that was big for me was it required me to finally settle with the facts that people that I trusted my entire life have now caused me to feel betrayed. That's big. Like that one, the once that thought settled into my spirit, that the ultimate the largest betrayal I have emotionally felt in my life came from people who were responsible for my upbringing, that hurt, and it has taken years to heal that, and it will be one of those things that I have to heal from for the rest of my life. A lot of times for us, um, and when I've talked to clients when I was a mandated reporter, um, one of the things that seems to be just kind of like a central, like a recurring theme is that once you realize that loved ones have betrayed you, it is so difficult for you to number one forgive them, number two, forget that it happened because you'll never forget it. But number three, to forgive yourself. The forgiveness of self in these situations goes deeper than oh, forgive yourself for believing in this person. It's forgiving yourself for even bringing the situation up, forgiving yourself for believing that other people from your family of origin were going to be there for you. It's um, you know, you going through this thought process over and over and over again of like, oh my god, how do I move on? How do I not carry the weight of this pain for the rest of my life? And I'm gonna tell you how. Y'all, I figured it out. It wasn't, it didn't really take a lot because when I asked the question to my therapist and to my coach and to professors while I've been studying psychology, they all said the same thing. You have to realize what belongs to you and what doesn't. So when we carry around the thoughts, the ideas, and opinions of other people, that it does not belong to us. Okay, that's not yours, that belongs to them. So when I went to this community of people and I told them what had happened to me, their knee jerk response was. Something they were told. It was something they believe, not me, because I had never heard of this until that moment. And unfortunately, I absorbed that and it became a limiting belief for me that maybe I should not have ever said anything. And that it doesn't matter that I've had to look at this person for the last 30 years of my life that assaulted me. It doesn't matter that every time I go somewhere now dealing with this community of people, that if this person is involved, I have to pretend like it never happened, like I've been doing my whole life, right? Y'all, understanding what belongs to you and what doesn't belong to you will help you on your healing journey. It's incorrect for me to think that I should not have said anything. That perpetuates the idea that I don't matter. And I know I matter. I love me. So if my yearning is to matter and my yearning is to be heard, and my yearning is to be seen, then I am not wrong for calling out the wrongdoings of another person. Now, if other people don't want to believe you, they don't want to hear you, baby. That belongs to them. That does not belong to you. So do not take that personally. Do not allow that to become a part of your psyche. Okay. There's one of the first things. Don't let that become a part of who you are. Um, I do have some tips for nurturing and caring yourself caring for yourself during emotional healing. If you're driving or you're listening to this podcast and you can't write everything down, it's totally okay. There's a full blog post on Visionary Catalyst Consulting.com that will also be in the show notes. Just click that. And this list is going to be there. Um, this is something that has become so much of a part of my life. I'm about to get a PhD in it. So just know I'm not speaking out the side of my neck just to be talking. Um, this is something that has come up in coaching sessions and counseling sessions and mentor sessions over years that I just it just became a part of who I am at this point, right? So, how do you nurture and care for yourself when you are dealing with emotional healing that hurts more than the original offense? Practice self-compassion. Take a deep breath with this one. I know, I know. You're like, what the hell does that even mean and how? Here's the deal. Um, most of us were not taught self-compassion as children. We were taught how to be nice, we were taught how to be kind to others, but not necessarily to ourselves, right? So um, when you're practicing self-compassion, make sure you treat yourself with kindness and understanding. If your best friend came to you and told you she had suffered something that was emotionally damaging, what would you tell her? Um, my personal preference is to go stand in the mirror and have that conversation with myself. It's hard. It is hard to look at yourself in the mirror and then talk to yourself as though you were your best friend. But that is one of the most healing exercises that you can ever do. Yeah, it might be difficult because you have to look at you in the mirror and come face to face with who you actually are and the things that you've suffered. Um, if it's too difficult for you to speak to yourself the first time you try it, just high-five yourself. Just put your hand up to the mirror and high-five yourself and tell yourself that you love you. You do not uh you don't think about a high five in a negative way. Every time you've ever gotten a high five in your life, it was something positive, right? So if you can't find the words to tell yourself, just high-five yourself in the mirror. Be gentle with yourself, um, and just know that this is a journey. You're you're not gonna heal it in a day. It took more than a day for you to get to the place that you are, and it may take you the rest of your life to heal, and that's okay. Um, build a support system. Healing from emotional pain is not something you have to do by yourself. Uh, build a support system of friends, family, uh, chosen family, or a therapist who can provide you with emotional support and guidance. Um, make sure that you are in a safe and supportive space to process your emotions. Please know you cannot heal in the place that you were hurt. That's real hard. It's difficult for you to have a conversation about your healing with the people who hurt you. If they haven't done the work to heal themselves and apologize to you, that's not where you're gonna run and have this conversation. Okay, this needs to be somewhere else. People who are going to be compassionate and people who are not gonna gossip about your process, people who are going to be there for you, and sometimes that means you're not gonna talk to someone you know. Maybe you go to a support group, maybe you join a coaching group, maybe you join my Facebook group where we do have these conversations and we do encourage one another. Um, that will also be in your show notes. You can engage in creative expression. This is such a big one. Um, as an artsy person and a neuro spicy person with neurodivergent children who have always been encouraged to do the arts, engaging in creative expression is a powerful way to heal emotional, to heal emotionally from artwork to photography to cooking, um, to baking to decorating cakes to drawing or dancing or writing poetry and writing books, anything that is going to allow you to express your emotions in a healthy and positive way will give you a sense of release and catharsis, like it's going to be okay. And I highly, highly encourage you to do that. If you are not someone who feels like you are that creative, you can journal, you can write out what you're feeling, and it's totally okay. Um, a big one, practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is a practice of being present and fully engaged in the current moment. And I was talking to my interns this week about this. How so many people have mindfulness incorrectly in their head. They think that mindfulness and meditation are the same thing, and they are not, they are two different things, they can be intertwined, but they are not the same. So when we talk about a mindfulness journey, you are being present and fully engaged in the current moment. So that means you you are being grounded, you you are in the moment. It may mean that you're sitting and you're doing um a meditation practice, or you're doing yoga, or you're walking on a treadmill, or you are journaling for 10 minutes and you're only focusing on journaling. It could mean that you are listening to a guided meditation, that you are doing a meditation walk. It could be that you are mindfully eating where you are actually enjoying the food. You're in the moment with the food, you are feeling the texture of the food in your mouth, you taste the spices, you have slowed down your breath enough to fully enjoy your food, right? You are in the moment, as opposed to thinking about the 50, 11,000 other things you need to be doing. That's not mindfulness, that's you being a busybody. But in mindfulness, is where we stop and we ground ourselves and we're in the moment. Um, another thing you can do is seek professional help. Sometimes what you are going through is too heavy for you to carry by yourself. Going to therapy is great. Just because you start a therapy journey doesn't mean you're gonna be there forever. I went to a therapist for a couple of months during my divorce. It was great, it was wonderful. And when my therapist was like, Okay, Kimberly, um, like you don't really need to talk to me every week. Like, you're okay. I need you to accept the fact that you are thriving in life. You you're like not depressed, you know, none of these things are happening to you. Um, you know, here's my number if you ever need to reach back out. And I reached back out to her maybe one more time, um, a couple of months after that. But, you know, once that season of my life had passed, it was okay. We moved on, right? And I didn't need to see my therapist anymore. Um, but if there's ever a time in my life that I feel like this is too heavy for me to carry, you best believe I will find me a new therapist that can handle wherever I am at that point. You can also set realistic goals. So please don't think that you are going to heal from years of trauma. Like, if your entire childhood was full of trauma, you are absolutely not healing from that in like five weeks. Like, it's just it's not going to happen. Um, and you have to understand that little small things, right? Small victories and milestones are going to be great. So, like, let's think about it this way. Um, after a breakup, the first year after a breakup, right, you go through like this grief process. So, we're gonna celebrate small victories. You're gonna celebrate the fact that just because you felt something emotionally and you really miss that person, even though you started to text them, you deleted it. Small victory, we're gonna celebrate it. High five to you. Um, the long email you got ready to send them in the middle of the night, and you never sent it, you sent it to yourself, you sent it to your girlfriend, but not them. Boom, small victory. Uh, if you saw them in passing and you didn't like break down and start crying, small victory, love, small victory. You make it through the first of all the things, right? The first Christmas without them, the first Thanksgiving without them, the first birthday without them, uh, the first New Year's without them, the first anniversary where it's no longer your anniversary. As you make it through all of those moments, celebrate them because you made it. And I'm gonna tell you why you need to celebrate it. Because there's other people on this earth who didn't, they didn't make it through. They folded and they caved and they called them or they text them, and that person who has already shown you who they are responded in the way that they typically respond, and now that person is back at square one with a broken heart, right? When you make it to the point where you stop breaking your own heart, what do I mean by that? I'm glad you asked. So, you know how sometimes we get in our heads, right? And we're like playing out the situation before it even happens. Like, if you need to have a difficult conversation with somebody and you play out how this conversation could go, right? Like this is option A. If they say this, I'm gonna do this. This is option B. Well, maybe they won't say this and it'll go great. But if they turn around and start acting like this, then I'm gonna act like this, right? Like you have played out a scenario, multiple scenarios in your head, and then you break your own heart in those scenarios, like the other person hasn't done anything to you, but now you got an attitude because in your head you have created something that does not exist. You broke your own heart. Listen, um, once you become relieved of that pressure, once you stop doing things like that, baby celebrate it, okay? Um, celebrate the fact that you have matured emotionally to the point that you no longer break your own heart when you think about random things. Okay, so those are just a couple of ways to kind of handle um when you are on your healing journey, and the healing journey hurts more than the original offense, right? On the blog, on the blog that is connected with this particular episode, um, there is also a four-minute, four or five-minute um meditation. It's a meditation that I recorded for this particularly. Um, and I have another podcast called The Visionary Catalyst Meditations. It can also be found on there, but if you just click the show notes, there's gonna be a link to it. Take five minutes out of your day to listen to that meditation. Um, it is the I am worthy of self-love and compassion meditation so that you can learn how to nurture yourself, so that you can learn how to be gentle with yourself, so that you can know that as you're on this journey, baby, it's a journey, right? Sometimes we're on autopilot, and other times we need to be defensive driving or paying attention or holding on to the steering wheel just a little bit tighter because the weather ahead is changing, right? There are moments where we have to adjust our posture based on the things that we see, that we interpret, that we are feeling, and that we are processing. And so I I want you, I want you to know that the purpose of this podcast, this particular one, is to know that you are not alone, is to know that even those of us who study mind-body medicine and study neuroscience and study emotions and study feelings and study the effects of abandonment or um the absentness of people or compassion or love, like right, like those of us who study these things, we also experience the same thing that you're experiencing. So I want you to know that you can be gentle with yourself. Even if you weren't taught how to do that as a child, you now have the opportunity to embrace your big emotions as an adult and to be gentle with yourself. It doesn't make you weak, it doesn't make you less of a man or a woman, it doesn't make you less of a person when you take care of yourself, when you give yourself grace, the same grace and compassion you would give your best friend. I want you to give that to yourself. I hope that this podcast episode has been helpful. It is one that I am sure people may have to listen to more than once, depending on what your life looks like, right? And that's super okay. Definitely reach out, have a conversation with me. I'm always here for you. Um, I have a community of people who are here for you as well on Facebook. We have that linked in the show notes if you would like to join the free Facebook group. But just know, friends, that as you move through this life, give yourself grace, give yourself compassion. Understand that sometimes emotional pain can be just as intense as real physical pain. Know that you are not crazy, that neuroscience has proven that emotional and physical pain take the same steps of nurture and care during the healing process. You will get through this. You are equipped for this moment in your life, and I believe in you. If you take nothing else away from this podcast episode, I want you to do this one thing for me. Say, I am worthy of love and compassion. Until next week, friends, have a beautiful, beautiful day.