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Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. So I thank everybody for

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Speaker 1: your patients on my technical difficulties. I am doctor dom

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Speaker 1: and I am a license pych and college professor. All right,

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Speaker 1: so let's do this with our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: As your clarity grows, you recognize sometimes it's not about

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Speaker 1: releasing but instead acknowledging what's already gone or what was

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Speaker 1: never there. And that quote comes to us from doctor

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Speaker 1: Tama and Lady, if you've listened to multiple episodes, you

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Speaker 1: know that doctor Tama has been on our show a

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Speaker 1: couple of times to talk about intergenerational trauma, but to

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Speaker 1: also talk about mothering. So Tea, are we ready to

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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, let's do it. Let's do it. I'm actually

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Speaker 2: curious to know Dom what this quote means to you,

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Speaker 2: because there's part of the quote that I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I get this, but I think hearing someone else explain

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Speaker 2: to be with understanding the releasing part. So, when you

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Speaker 2: hear this quote, what does it mean to you? And

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Speaker 2: as well, what does this quote mean to you?

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Speaker 1: So, as I think about this quote, it feels a

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Speaker 1: little it feels complex, like it feels like it captures

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Speaker 1: the complexity and the nuance as it relates to this

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Speaker 1: topic of mother daughter relationships. Right, that as you are

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Speaker 1: processing your relationship with your mom, that as things get clearer,

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Speaker 1: it may not be necessarily about letting go, but more

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Speaker 1: let me let me clarify even more. Right, So, this

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Speaker 2: That makes sense? That makes sense, And I feel like y'all,

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Speaker 2: don't judge Mefie. Sometimes it takes my mind or little while,

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Speaker 1: And that makes sense, right, because there are, like there

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Speaker 1: I don't know of any seventeen, eighteen, nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that evolution honestly stems from how

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Absolutely I would agree with that, hands down,

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Speaker 2: it at that, so use another example. We're gonna leave

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Speaker 2: see Diana who's listening live shout out to Diana says,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you hit it right there when you said, like,

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Speaker 2: so I just want to thank you again, Princess for sharing.

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Speaker 2: And I hope that you as you listen to this episode, Lady,

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Speaker 2: you tap into our other episodes because we have more

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Speaker 2: so we just hope that you all will check that

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Speaker 2: and we'll be here next week, same time, same place,

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Speaker 2: every Friday at one thirty pm Pacific time. What's at

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Speaker 2: no again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for tuning in and.

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Speaker 2: Check us out next week. See you next week, lady,