In this episode:
- Authenticity and vulnerability are risks, but they allow for real connection
- Learning to have healthy relationships
- Presenting a false front, "masking", prevents connection
- Learn to let yourself be truly seen
- Putting on a social mask creates loneliness
- Emotionally unavailable people have a damaging effect
- Seek out people who are emotionally available
- We are capable of rewiring our thought patterns
- Urgency pushes us to do the work of emotional sobriety and healing
- We become addicted to our thoughts, which leads to substance use disorder
- Having the power to affect positive change in our children, in future generations
