This family is just one 10 away from a full-blown circus.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoi, my dear shit shows, how are we doing?

Welcome to any new listeners, I'm Andrea and welcome to your new shit show family, your new chosen shit show family.

The odds are good but the goods are odd.

I don't think that really applies here, but that's a saying that they use to describe dating and like AA, they say the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

And I think that that very much describes what the hell's going on here and your new chosen shit show family.

That reminds me, actually, of this Instagram video that I made, I don't know, a couple months ago, six months ago, that I feel like did not get the appreciation that it deserves, deserved.

So how about I recreate it for you right now so you guys can appreciate it.

So I did a rendition of We Are Family, but I did it, the dysfunctional family remix.

So, hold on, let me take a little sip here of my La Croix, okay, you ready for this? Don't say I didn't warn you, okay, this is how I made it.

Around us they say, can they be that nuts? Just let me stay full or recon, we give and shame in a toxic doll, we are family, hey, hey, hey, oh, I got all my scapegoats with me.

What do you think? Pretty good. Pretty damn good, right?

Oh, Lord, do I get the weirdest host award? I hope I do. The weirdest stand the coolest. Okay, yeah, but by new listeners, I die understand.

So today, we are diving deep into a whole bunch of shit, actually, it's going to be like a variety show.

Let's see, I think this format could actually be kind of fun. So let me know what you think.

So first, we're going to get a little story time, a little Andrea story time, then we're going to talk about trauma responses, emotional flashbacks, and how the hell to cope with them.

And then we are going to top her off with a little, with a little Barb Nangle time. So I asked Barb if she could give me her, her holiday greatest hits.

So she's going to be giving us some tips and pointers and boundary stuff, affirmation stuff, just to give us a little, it's like a little B12 shot for the holidays, basically, for Thanksgiving, getting you ready for Thanksgiving.

So let's, let's, let's get a move on. But first, a few things. Number one, merch alert, merch alert, we have new merch, we have new merch.

I have spent way too many hours on this, or maybe just enough, but I'm not kidding you. I've spent like, I don't know, over a hundred hours working on this new merch, designing it, redesigning it, putting it on the website, a lot of time.

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