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It's amazing, I mean you know, as a therapist, you spend a lot of time learning about people's
childhood and upbringing, and you know people are always like "Yeah, yeah, yeah." But when
you really think about it, what you went through as a child was what developed who you are
as an adult. The way in which you learn how to cope with life were the mechanisms that
got instilled in you at such young age, and I too was a food person and a happy person.
And I think that, you know, through all my own work also is just realizing that, you
know, the people who are the optimists and the positive and the bubbly, or whatever,
is that oftentimes there's a lot of avoidance going on. And somewhere we learn that it's
not okay to be sad, and it's not okay to have pain, and then we start to push it down or
we deal with it in all these other unhealthy ways.