Oh, uh, yeah. Welcome back to Shicho!

Shicho Saturday, Setso, folks.

How's it going?

So you're going to get to hear our group from this past Thursday, but real quick, I wanted to hit you

with eight reasons why you should really be damning the join, okay? Eight reasons why you'd be a damn fool for not hopping on this damn ship.

Number one, validation. So being a part of a group with others who have experienced similar things as you, provides a shit load of validation and breaks through some of that shame and knowing that you're not the only one that has endured these things.

Two, emotional support.

So a large part of this healing process is bringing up and feeling all of those suppressed

emotions that we have stuffed our entire life.

And this is a community that is a safe space for you to do so and to have support while you're

doing it. Three, breaking isolation. So in the big red book it talks about how we cannot

heal in isolation.

Okay, it says this in the big red book, that's all I'm going to say there.

Number four, learning from others.

So we gain a ton of insights into ourselves by hearing the experiences of others, right?

These are insights that you wouldn't necessarily gain by sitting in your therapist's office.

Five, encouragement and hope. by seeing other people's progress, recovery, and

healing that can give us so much damn hope and encouragement that the same as possible for us.

Six, building healthy relationships.

So as I always say, this is a relational trauma,

we heal relational trauma and safe relationships.

This is a place where you can do so and where you can

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