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  I’ll introduce you to my friend Melissa. I hope she’ll be back a few times because she is a wealth of knowledge and an amazingly interesting woman. Her life experience, natural talent and kind heart shows through in this candid conversation about like, everything life throws at you. Enjoy! 

Summary/Time Stamps: 

• Juggling Reality -. 0:08
• Melissa’s description of herself. 2:07
• Functional pain and pain management. 6:18
• The amount of knowledge doctors don’t get is insane. 12:25
• There’s not enough lavender oil in the world. 18:24
• My life would be incomplete if I didn’t have kids. 24:35
• Every amazing thing our bodies can do is dependent on the one thing that they can’t do. 30:03
• What helped this person? What didn’t? 34:09
• The search for understanding and helping when you’ve felt helpless. 37:11
• Why we treat ourselves like shit about being vulnerable. 43:03
• My anxiety is like a gremlin. 48:44
• Confidence is a defense mechanism. It’s like the clay army. 54:10
• Introspection is like a little gremlin. 56:05
• When you feel like this you should get away from the people that you care about. 1:01:01
• “How can I help?”. 1:06:08
• We’re all being mean to ourselves. 1:11:58
• The new sexual revolution is coming. 1:17:38
• How long were you in Boston? 1:22:56
• Making friends at work. 1:27:56
• People change because of two things: something happens to them or they hear a story. 1:34:49
• You can’t judge someone’s experience. 1:37:44

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