Self is the one inside you were always meant to be.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child.

Yeah, hey, yeah. Welcome back to the impact of growing up in

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea, I am a total and complete shit show I am a

recovering alcoholic I am a recovering adult child of an alcoholic and dysfunctional family

and I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship where we talk about serious ship but we don't

take ourselves too seriously so today today, we are diving deep

with Tammy Sullenberger. She is a certified IFS therapist. She's the host of the podcast,

The One Inside. She's the author of the book, The One Inside. And you are in for a damn trade.

This woman is a wealth of knowledge both personally and professionally.

And of course I get her to open up.

She said to me at the end, she goes, I don't know if I've ever opened up that much on another podcast.

And I said, yeah, that's my superpower.

That is my superpower.

So I've actually been sitting on this interview for a bit.

This was recorded on December 4th, which was the same day that I released my episode,

letting y'all know that I was going to be taking a break from the podcast after having

quite an epic meltdown the week prior and the realization of the

severity of the emotional exhaustion and burnout that I was experiencing and had been experiencing.

And so needless to say, I was not in the best place emotionally, mentally, when I had this conversation

with Tammy. I mean, you can't tell. You can't tell in the interview or anything, but just know I was

quite a hot mess at this moment in time. I guess there was some relief that I was experiencing

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