The night is darkest just before dawn, and I promise you the dawn is coming.

My name is Andrea, and this is Adult Child.

Yeah, hey, now. Welcome back to the Just let it all go

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go. Welcome back to an old child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. my dear shit shows. For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. I'm a total and complete shit show

and I found out that I was an adult child at nine years of sobriety after nine years of

toxic romantic relationships and not being able to figure out what the hell was wrong with me.

And then coming to the realization that my childhood that I knew

wasn't ideal was actually trauma. So for any new listeners, welcome aboard, this hot mess of a ship.

This is where we put the fun and dysfunctional. This is where we talk about serious ship. We don't

take ourselves to do seriously in case you didn't figure it out yet. We curse here. You've been warned.

So today, we are diving deep with two lovely ladies. So we have returning guest, Dr. Amelia Kelly.

She was on just a few months ago.

I'll put her first episode in the show notes in case you want to go listen to that.

It was a gem.

And we have Gina Cavalier, and they are the co-authors of the newly published book, this nice, fluffy summary, as I say to them, surviving suicidal ideation,

from therapy to spirituality, and the lived experience.

So in this book, Amelia provides the clinical information, the perspective and the knowledge

from a therapist, and then Gina is the one providing the libed experience.

And I have to say, I read through it and it is packed full of really good information.

Specifically, there's a lot of detail about various modalities of healing.

Now, I just want to say this first.

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