Welcome to episode 728 with my return guest, Dr. Kate Truitt.

We are taking a break this week from the surveys so I can have a little free time to relax.

We will obviously return with not only surveys next week, but a new montage.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my Lord.

I hope you're surviving the holidays.

And here is that return conversation with Dr. K. Truitt.

That feeling of being trapped in your own life with no way out. All my altars have

different handwriting, different affects. I'm somebody in prison. My mom taught me about rape.

And I'm nobody on the street. Before she taught me about love. Nobody will ever love me enough.

There's two lies. A kind pimp? Yes. The secret, shameful life at home. Happiness isn't the goal

that you always just don't talk about and enters the front. The goal is meaning. It's hard to go

into the dark places. I should have leaned into that feeling and gotten curious about it. Recognize

when your fears are driving your behaviors. What you resist gets louder and run toward them.

She said you first and I said, I might be gay. I was with a girl. And I said, and what do you have to tell me? She said, I'm moving to Florida and this is my last session.

I'm here again with Dr. Kate Truitt.

What a really nice conversation the last time you were here.

You opened up about your childhood, losing your fiancé, the trauma of that, the guilt, the second guessing. We talked a bit about the trauma in the brain.

No, a lot about the trauma in the brain. Okay. Yeah. Kate and I were talking before we started recording, and one of the things you suggested

that we might touch on is being childless.

And I shared with her that Friday night, the Zoom group that I do for European listeners, that was the

exact topic. And it was very emotional for some of the members of that. And that just feels,

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