Now, the third step is to connect with your inner child. And so this is a little woowoo. But you know, you might have done this exercise before. But I think the important part of this thing is when you can really like talk to that person, and make them feel safe, and make that younger version of you feel heard and understood, then a lot of healing can come of it. So you know, I'm not perfect at doing this. But I can share with you some of the ways that this has worked for me, most of this has been moderated under a healing modality, my friend Christy has a company called Sanga, where she helps people with sound healing, and emotional healing through their healing modality using an energetic board where they resonate, music and sound through to help you heal faster. And so one of the exercises that she had me do was healing a fight or flight response that I was consistently having, every time something would go bad, or something would go sideways in business, it was, honestly, it's been so debilitating to operate out of fight or flight for the majority of my life. And so I really knew that this was something that I wanted to heal. And so what she did is she had me visualize myself as a little kid, and get them to a place where I felt safe. My healer Melanie also does this, sometimes I pick up the kid, tell them that they were saved, like give, give my my younger version of myself a big hug. Sometimes it's like walking through a grassy field, like whatever works for you, you know. And then you want to take the story that you're having and integrate the pieces of the story. In as you're in inner child, ask this, this younger version of you, what they need to say, what they need to be told, and what they need to feel safe. And this will help you kind of heal that part of yourself. That is not working, I really recommend doing this exercise with someone else. It's a little bit harder to do on yourself, but you can do it on yourself. In fact, I was at a healing retreat a couple of months ago. And when I was younger, when I was a high schooler, I had anorexia and bulimia and had a severe eating disorder. And it makes me emotional to think about, but I spent about an hour by myself healing this part of myself, because I never went into therapy or anything to actually heal it, it just at some point, I kind of grew out of it. But some of the lingering side effects of that has still followed me maybe for years to come. And as I we were like walking into this retreat, and I was taking a look at like what what I could heal, like if we had to pull a picture of ourselves when we were a kid pull a picture of ourselves when we were a teenager and pull a picture of ourselves now. And when I looked at that teenage version of myself, all I could see with this was this person who was starving herself and who was so unhappy, because she felt like she had to be perfect for everyone else, instead of just loving herself. And so I gave her an opportunity to actually love herself and spoke to her and also gave her an opportunity to talk to her, the younger version of herself. And I integrated all pieces of me into the woman that I am today. And I'm telling you, this is a process. It's not something that just happens overnight. But no matter what you've experienced in your life, these pieces of you, these fragmented pieces of you can be brought back together. And so that inner child work really, really helped me kind of clean up some of this mess that I was still experiencing my life.