me I think about it as a way to use the symbols of math that are equal greater than and less than in order to help support our best sense of self. So recently, I had a client come in, and they said that they were struggling because they were being told that they should put themselves first but then they also were told never to offend anyone and don't hurt anyone's feelings and that sort of thing. And she said to me, I'm so confused, like, how am I supposed to do this. And so what I came up with in the work that we were doing was that if we have a way of seeing ourselves as equal to each other, it serves us in multiple ways. One is that it serves us as being as valuable as another person. And the other is that we have a sense of our own worth in relation to other people. That is where it started. When my client came in and asked me that and I came up with this idea. I also realized that one of the other things that needed to be included were the symbols of less than and greater than because this is how people tend to evaluate themselves. That limbic brain is designed to do comparisons. The idea behind that is that by comparing ourselves, we will keep ourselves safe from potential danger, risk of abandonment or rejection. And when we do this, it sets up a false dichotomy about either somebody else's value as compared to ours or our own value as compared to someone else's. And so instead of being less than people, which tends to happen with people pleasers, the other person is always much more important and needing to be pleased as opposed to ourselves. And as opposed to the greater than symbol, which indicates that somehow we are elevated or more than other people. The equal symbol allows us to have relationships on an equal footing and to value ourselves and what our path is, as well as that of others. The idea behind this is that it is common for us to have a belief system, a faulty belief system, about our own value. And one of the ways that trauma impacts that is by preventing us from seeing ourselves as we really are, and particularly as an equal to other people in our world. We were talking a few minutes ago about how we tend to see this more with females who are so conditioned or socialized to consider everybody else's needs before their own. And what trauma does is it alters our ability to find worthiness in ourselves. And the idea behind math of the soul is that we use the math symbols of equal greater than and less than to help us sort through how to respond to people from a place of our own value. And our own sense of self, the way this came up was that I was working with a 16 year old, who's great. And she came into the office and said, I'm supposed to take care of myself. But I'm also supposed to not ever say no to anybody. And I'm not supposed to do anything that somebody might be upset by. And I don't know how to prioritize myself, while I'm so busy worrying about what everyone else thinks and feels. And I thought that was brilliant. And what I did is I always write on my whiteboard in my office because it helps me think more clearly, I put up those three symbols the equal the greater than, and the less than and talks about the importance of using those symbols as a mental trigger to assess how we're making decisions.