The heart remains wounded when you look for others to place a bandage.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

What's you holding on to?

Let's just let it all go. What's making holding on to? Just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

I'm just let it all.

Ahoy, my dear shit shows.

Happy, happy, damn new year to you.

And let me just say, good riddance, 2024.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, okay?

Uh, 2024, not my best year, folks, not my best year at all. Quite a doozy of a year, actually.

And you know what? I think that sometimes we actually can downplay just truly how big of an

accomplishment it can be to just make it

through the year like surviving a challenging year beginning and ending the year with a damn pulse

like that isn't just some small feat okay it is It is actually quite impressive. And so I want to publicly

acknowledge and give myself the recognition that I deserve for just getting through this year.

And I really hope that you are able to extend this same sentiment towards yourself. And so I am

making a promise to you and to myself to continue to show up flaws, failures, and all. Okay? Let's do the damn thing. Let's continue to do the damn thing. And so as we are on the

brink of this new year and as I am still on my little break, my hiatus, I thought that it would be

perfect timing for us to dive into, to revisit a topic that really touches on the core of

this adult child condition, and that is attachment styles. As I harp on constantly, this is

relational trauma that we are dealing with. And a very crucial component of this relational trauma

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