882. The beauty and shadow of self-awareness

0:00I remember there was different periods for me, especially in friendship, where I had just friends kind of fall off at different growth points for me.

0:10And it doesn't mean I'm better than it.

0:11It had nothing to do with that.

0:12When really you are just advocating for yourself and doing what is true and authentic for you and not abandoning yourself anymore.

0:21You're going to start to notice things about people that you date for better or for worse that you wouldn't have noticed before.

0:27People who I follow online, who I've met in person, they sound emotionally intelligent online, but then in person are like emotionally unavailable.

0:35It's kind of crazy.

0:36We are the most therapized generation.

0:40Yeah.

0:40Everyone's a narcissist and most people are gaslighting us and there's boundaries being made and we're dysregulated.

0:48We're having a trauma response.

0:50We're avoidant.

0:51We're anxious.

0:52Hello and welcome to the Almost 30 podcast.

0:55It's Lindsay Simpsic.

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