Mindfulness Mode

Joel Brookman has a deep passion for using his expertise learned in the trenches of Wall Street, to guide others in their journeys. He is a Certified Financial Coach and Personal development expert focused on helping people clearly articulate their life's goals and then move on to achieving them. Joel’s experience is working as a Senior Executive for a Fortune 100 Wall Street firm. Presently he is committed to helping as many people as possible through his podcast, ‘90 Second Navigator’, a show which offers practical ways to become crystal clear on what you truly want in life. Joel is a firm believer in mindful breathing; he ends every episode focusing on the breath.

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Email: [email protected]

Website: www.JoelBrookman.com

Podcast: 90 Second Navigator

Book: Adjust Your Sails by Joel Brookman

Most Influential Person

Eckhart Tolle

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has made me a much calmer person. Meditation and being able to separate myself from my life situation has done amazing things for me and has reduced my stress in the process.

Thoughts on Breathing

Every morning, the first thing I do when I get out of bed is I sit and I breathe. I try to do it somewhere between five and ten minutes and just clear my mind. Before everything comes in; before the day starts, just get grounded. And that's just focusing on the breath and just letting everything else go.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Book: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

Book: A Course In Miracles by Helen Schucman

Book: Adjust Your Sails by Joel Brookman

App: Insight Timer

Bullying Story

I was fortunate. Personally, I didn't get bullied. I don't think I was a bully. I could have been nicer to a few people over the course of my life.

The mindfulness part should play a role [in bullying situations].

If you can separate yourself from what is happening. In other words, if I am this person who is being portrayed by the bully and I see myself there, then the bully is winning.

But if I rise above it, and through mindfulness understand that I am bigger than my life situation; if I can get beyond that, then that can change the whole dynamic.

It's a challenge with children, I notice this with my own kids, getting them open to mindfulness between ages 10 and 18, it's tough to do. I talk to my children all the time about it and I always wonder if there's a better way to deliver it. I'm not sure I have the answer to that. There's no escape on social media for kids or teachers.

Mani Vaya has been meditating for 20 years. He started in his teens because of what he describes as ‘a major failure’ in his life. Mani is a former Physicist and Electrical and Computer Engineer who went on to manage cell phone product launches which were sometimes billion dollar projects. He has since moved on and is now the host of the '2000Books' podcast, interviewing top business and self-help authors. Mani reads 7 business and personal development books a week and talks about all the great ideas he learns from these books on his Youtube channel and podcast which can all be found at 2000books.com.

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Website: www.2000books.com

Youtube: 2000books

Podcast: www.2000books.com

Free Video Course: The most important ingredient of success: http://www.2000books.com/success

Most Influential Person

Tony Robbins

Effect on Emotions

My emotions are much more well-managed. They are not so up and down.

Thoughts on Breathing

There are instances every few days where you can feel overwhelmed, frustrated or confused. A simple breathing technique that anyone can do is just, breathe in to the count of 5 and then breathe out to the count of 10 and that is a very powerful exercise because it gives control back to your parasympathetic nervous system; to your pre-frontal cortex and away from your limbic brain.

Suggested Resources

Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

App: Airplane Mode or Off on your device :)

App: www.dhamma.org Learn to do a Vipasanna Meditation taught by S. N. Goenka

Bullying Story

I have always been scrawny. In college, I was the shortest kid. Thankfully, somehow I grew taller after that. I'm still skinny.

Yeah, there was bullying in my college days and people made fun of me and people physically bullied me because I was the smallest kid. I did not use mindfulness to deal with this.

I was resentful of the guys who treated me this way. I tried to avoid them and I kind of hated those guys.

I don't think I was understanding enough at that point to be able to use any kind of mindfulness to deal with this. I chose not to dwell on this as I look back in my life.

There are so many failures in my life, but I want to keep on programming the right story to myself.

I feel like I bully myself sometimes because I realize this goal [a certain goal] didn't get accomplished. That's what I call self-compassion towards myself.

There's a great book on this topic by Kristin Neff on self-compassion. Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind by Kristin Neff.

I feel like I have so much to accomplish that I don't have the time to reward myself [for small accomplishments]. I do go down to the beach here in San Diego and those are very rewarding moments.

Shira Taylor Gura is an expert at helping people get unstuck. She’s a well-being coach and author of ‘Getting unSTUCK  - Five Simple Steps to Emotional Well-Being’ and she believes fear and desire are huge factors causing people to feel stuck. Trained in Psychology and Occupational Therapy, Shira uses what she’s learned in those areas and through personal experiences to help others. She is a firm believer that it’s important to learn to give your brain a break and she helps others through her blog, keynote speaking and on-line course.   Shira lives with her husband and four children in a small community in Israel.

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Website: TheStuckMethod.com

Shira's Book: Getting unSTUCK: Five Simple Steps to Emotional Well-Being

Most Influential Person

My two Aunts who practice mindfulness.

Effect on Emotions

I don't think mindfulness has affected my emotions at all.

I think my emotions are my emotions and they're going to always be my emotions. I'm going to always be completely full of emotions till I die. I think what mindfulness has done is learn how to react to my emotions; how to allow myself to feel my emotions instead of run away from them and trying to resist them and cover them up.

This practice has helped me to say it's okay to be emotional.

You have emotions, then feel your emotions, you're human.

Now take responsibility and see how you're going to be in the world with those emotions.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is the anchor to be present. When I'm teaching a yoga class, I encourage my students to make their breath audible. When they hear their breath, it's a reminder to come back.

That's basically what the whole practice of mindfulness is. It's constantly coming back to this moment.

If we're living in the past; if we're living in the future, we're not being mindful.

The breath is an awesome tool that you carry around with you; it's directly under your nose. You can use it anywhere. Nobody knows that you're using it and it anchors you into this moment.

Suggested Resources

Book: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Book: Getting unSTUCK: Five Simple Steps to Emotional Well-Being

App: Podcast Addict (To listen to podcasts)

Bullying Story

I would like to share a story of how I was actually bullying myself. This is something I find myself doing more often than I would expect.

I was in a situation where I needed to be out of my home and my husband wasn't going to be around. I have four kids and my three older kids also weren't going to be around. I needed help with my six-year-old.

We live in a very small community and oftentimes our kids are inside other people's homes and we're constantly kind of co-parenting. It's very common and it's very fun and it's easy.

So I picked up the phone and I asked one of my friends if they could please watch my son whose six. Just for one hour .... (tune into the interview to hear the rest of the story).

JP Sears is a deeply spiritual thought leader with an intense sense of humor. You may have experienced his mindful comedy if you’ve seen any of his viral videos focusing on essential oils, the joys of being gluten intolerant, being vegan, the wonderful uses of coconut oil and more. According to his book, ‘How To Be Ultra Spiritual’, we’re taught that he was sent to our planet by God-fearing atheists to create videos to share hidden secrets only being revealed now, after the passing of centuries of time. I am thrilled and delighted to welcome JP Sears to the Mindfulness Mode podcast.

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Website: www.AwakenWithJP.com

Social Media: @AwakenWithJP

YouTube: AwakenWithJP

Most Influential Person

John McMullin (Teacher at JourneysOfWisdom.com)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has allowed me to embrace [my emotions] more.

I don't know that my emotions have changed from mindfulness, but my relationship to my emotions has changed for the more intimate.

For the first couple of decades of my life, I was mostly numb. So much was going on under the surface that I was unaware of it rationally. Also emotionally I was unaware of my emotional realities.

Mindfulness helps me acknowledge what is, and I think the old Zen path of contentment; accepting things as they are without the need to change that and without the need for them to be otherwise.

I'm not perfect, I'm clumsy at best, but it's [mindfulness is] a nice help.

Thoughts on Breathing

Oftentimes I'll have a post-it note [on my desk] that just says breathe.

I think breathing is a fascinating biofeedback tool. It tells us what's going on in our body but what's more important it tells us what's going on in our mind and maybe even in our relationship to what's beyond our mind.

When I notice my breathing being shallow, caught up, I'm taking things too seriously, I'm getting stressed out. That's my mindfulness cue to become more mindful.

Becoming mindful of my lack of mindfulness is a powerful step to becoming more mindful at core levels so noticing shallow breathing. I feel it in my neck. It's just so obvious when we just remind ourselves to look for it so breathing helps me become mindful of my lack of mindfulness.

Suggested Resources

Book: Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch

Book: How To Be Ultra Spiritual: 12 1/2 Steps To Spiritual Superiority by JP Sears

App: No app recommended

Bullying Story

I think bullying is severe abuse disguised as 'just the way it is'.  We're looking to free kids and honestly adults too, but looking to free kids from this sort of silent secrecy that we consent to where it's like I am trapped by bullying and I can't tell on anybody because that means I'll be bullied more.

Kids need a way out. Life is too short to not be free.

Telling a child, well, just be yourself and don't worry about it; that's amazing advice but functionally useless.

Children need more help because this is a real issue present day. It would just be a joy if, in a short amount of time, we just wake up and this is not an issue anymore, find something else to spend your time on. That would be amazing.

I did have experience with bullying. As a kid I wasn't constantly picked on by any means, I won't pretend that was my case but there were definitely times when I was being bullied and this feels crummy.

The biggest one that stands out was, I was on the football team in the first year of high school.

It was my freshman year and before school started we were in the weight room and one of the older guys just started belittling me.

Honestly, I went into a shell for the next two years. I didn't really comprehend that I was going into a shell because I felt so much shame. I wanted to avoid being shamed like this again.

I couldn't recognize that at the time, but now that I look back it's like, wow, I did that.

I was living in an avoidance posture which [caused me to] become way more introverted than I actually am. Way less outgoing than I actually am.

In other words avoiding being

Pamela Gold is a deeply spiritual and insightful thought leader. She’s been called a Modern Day Yoda, providing deep wisdom and inspiration to all who have an opportunity to connect with her. Pamela’s childhood was spent on the family farm in upstate New York and later she graduated from Yale University; entered the business world and met success at the young age of 24.  After pausing to have a family, she then co-founded West Village Parents and went on to pursue her passion for fitness and wellness. Yoga became a new focus in her life and it connected her love of philosophy, science, psychology, and wellness, and eventually led her to discover her life's work: teaching inner peace as the key to our greatest evolution and ultimately, world peace.

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Website: www.GoldEvolution.com (See the free resources including the breathing guide)

Book: Book: Find More Strength: Five Pillars To Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness by Pamela Gold

Get the First Chapter of Pamela's book for free here: Find More Strength Book

email: [email protected]

Most Influential Person

My kriya yoga teacher, Yogacharya Don Abrams, affectionately called "Don Baba".

Effect on Emotions

The more mindful we can be, the more we have a buffer between how we originally were going to react and how we chose to respond.

Feeling angry, feeling sad, feeling our emotions ... that is never bad. Those feelings are always teaching us something; it's always an opportunity to learn.

The question is, how do we handle them? What are we going to do with that energy?

So, the more mindfulness that I have, the more power that I have moment to moment.

As I get triggered, I can use that as an opportunity. Own that opportunity to learn and to grow instead of pushing it out, blaming someone else, reacting in a way that's destructive to someone else.

At the end of the day, our relationships are based on trust so if we act out of these negative emotions and blame someone else for how we feel, we're going to be undermining the strength of our relationships.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing and our mind go hand in hand. On my website, I share a breathing guide. While we sometimes feel that we can't control our minds, we can always control our breath.

One of the things I learned in yoga school, and that I've played with and refined, is how, by focusing on different parts of our breath, we can kind of control and hack how our mind is handling something.

By keeping our breath even, we keep our mind even.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

Book: Find More Strength: Five Pillars To Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness by Pamela Gold

App: Stop Breathe Think (www.StopBreatheThink.org)

Bullying Story

I think every child is going to face time when people are unkind. Someone is putting their own feelings ahead of someone else's.

Everything that I've learned up to this point has influenced my parenting. My children come home with stories about times when people are unkind.

One of the mantras I've taught them has been that it is never cool to be rude or to be unkind as they face, perhaps another child that is excluding them and being unkind and perhaps trying to make themselves feel better by being unkind.

Using this awareness that, no matter how imperfect we are in any given moment, you always can learn from the situation that you could have handled something more skillfully, with more grace, with more compassion yourself. But if someone is being unkind to you, that's on them.

When I was in fifth grade, I had a friend .... it was the end of the year party and there was this whole thing where we weren't going to have the party at her house, we were going to have the party at our house. I started to see that she was getting her feelings hurt, so I told her what was going on.

I kind of betrayed the confidence of my other friends in doing so. Understandably, my other friends were upset with me. That spiraled into som

Niel Guilarte is the owner of Wild Style Media in Tampa Florida, which is an award-winning, high-end video and production company. Niel is also host of the All Things Post podcast, founding member of the Florida Podcasters Association and co-organizer of Podfest Multimedia Expo with Chris Krimitsos. Niel is also a podcast launch coach and speaker

Message from Niel to Mindful Tribe: You Can Do Whatever You Want  To Do. My biggest life lesson was someone telling me, you shouldn't do more than one thing. NOT listening to that advice is why I am currently enjoying some of the best days of my life. Please don't ever give up on what you want to do. Be mindful of how you do it, but do EVERYTHING that you want to do.

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Website: www.WildStyleMedia.net

Podcast: All Things Post

Twitter & IG: @NielGuilarte and or/ @AllThingsPost / @WildStyleMedia

Facebook: @NielGuilarte

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Most Influential Person

My father

Effect on Emotions

I think I control them better now because I'm mindful of my emotions. Before, I let my emotions control me a lot.

Thoughts on Breathing

That's [breathing] a new one for me. I just recently started doing that; controlling my breathing, closing my eyes, counting to 10, those type of small simple steps. It really calms me down. I never realized [the difference].

I apply that [mindful breathing] now; late at night when I'm editing I sort of balance myself and then I keep moving and that's been working great.

Suggested Resources

Book:  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen F. Covey

App: The Google Calendar

App: Calm

Bullying Story

When I was a kid I was jumped a few times for liking and doing the things that I do and being told I should only focus on one thing.

I was bullied verbally and sometimes physically, as kids are. Back then we didn't know that's what it was called.

As much as people shouldn't bully, the amount you allow is sort of in your power. This is where I rely on the Christian side, making me a stronger man so that I tolerate less bullying. I allow a little less in.

That doesn't mean that people don't force themselves, but people tend to not bully you as much when you have a certain level of confidence about yourself.

When I worked for the police department, I learned that you are somewhat the reason you got robbed because you had your head down or you were distracted. You give clues to people to harm you.

If you walk like you are a confident person, and you walk alert, you are a little less likely to become a victim.

I say in life, if you want to be bullied less, ordered around less, manipulated less, be more confident in yourself and in what you believe in whatever that is, then you'll be less likely to allow it.

It is to some degree, a little bit in our control; not all of it. Just a little bit.

Nicholas Kusmich is one of the planet’s most successful and well-known facebook Advertising experts. He knows exactly how to help businesses scale revenue by using FB advertising to get more clients. He has his own unique system called “Contextual Congruence” which is based on his deep understanding of human mindset and social behavior and consequently what triggers people to click on an ad and eventually buy. This translates into the fact that Nicholas Kusmich has a deep and profound understanding of mindfulness. Nicholas has recently written the book: GIVE: The Ultimate Guide To Using Facebook Advertising to Generate More Leads, More Clients, and Massive ROI.

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Website: NicholasKusmich.com

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Most Influential Person

Life Experience

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has 100 percent affected my emotions.

I believe emotions are part of life and I think emotions are designed to be experienced in the fullness of it.

So when I'm angry, I'm angry; when I'm happy, I'm happy. I'm not trying to suppress any of that.

Being mindful; being aware that I'm not in the best of moods right now definitely allows you to prevent you from doing things you probably would regret and allows you to process those emotions a lot faster so you can be back into the state that you want to be.

Thoughts on Breathing

For the longest time, I didn't think breathing was all that important to anything.

In reality, I think in the times when I literally need to slow down, I literally slow down my breath.

I take some conscious breaths rather than unconscious breaths. In doing so, I find that it definitely affects everything about how I feel about slowing down, about getting to the pace that I need to be at, at that time.

Breath and spirit are the same word interchangeably in the Hebrew and the Greek which I find completely fascinating.

Suggested Resources

Book: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Books: Give: The Ultimate Guide To Using Facebook Advertising to Generate More Leads, More Clients, and Massive ROI by Nicholas Kusmich

App: None

Bullying Story

I'll talk about bullying in the sense of having people try to persuade you to do something you don't want to do.

Bullying from the perspective of not everyone liking you and having something to say about that.

My whole life, even to this day there are a lot of people that don't like me and they have the internet to share that with others.

For the most part, I try to ignore it. I think feeding on that type of energy is not something that would serve me or others.

I just try to take a few steps back to try to be mindful of the situation.

I think, a) is there truth to this? And b) Is the person that's speaking, vile to me, maybe there's a reason that has nothing to do with me. Maybe it has something to do with a life situation or a hurt they're going through.

There's a quote that says: "Hurt people, hurt people." I do my best to see the greater picture of things and realize it's probably not personal and there may be something going on with that person and also, maybe there is a lesson to be learned.

Jaret Grossman is highly skilled in guiding and advising others. In fact, he’s in a personal development league of his own, which is way up there on the upper echelon of spectacular business consultants and mindset coaches. Jaret’s brilliant insight is illuminated in many of his Youtube videos which have received over 30 million views. Jaret is known as one of New York’s best wrestlers, he holds a law degree, and he also has a health and fitness brand called Muscle Prodigy. Jaret has written a book called Cracking The Code, which has helped thousands of readers get their lives on track.

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Company: www.muscleprodigy.com

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Most Influential Person

My parents / Tony Robbins / Max (a wrestling mentor) / Parker (College Wrestling Coach)

Effect on Emotions

When you get to a point you realize that you're doing the same patterns over and over again. Then you realize that it's painful.

It's only when you learn to break free from the patterns that you'll experience peace. The only way to do that is mindfulness. Being consciously aware of; I feel this thing and I normally do this. Why?

The real root is the why. Why are you doing it? Is there a reason? Is it serving you? Is it not serving you? If you really dig deep, the layers of the why ... there is this breakthrough moment that it's like, why? And you can shift it. Then you can start implanting a new pattern that's more beneficial to you.

Thoughts on Breathing

Most of us breathe shallow and into our chest.

It's a shortened breath and that's usually the same breathing as someone who is anxious & tense all the time. Fear driven. It's shallow breaths.

If you could do the reverse where as you breathe deep into your belly, now you're going to be much more relaxed and calm.

When we talk about alpha, it's about alpha male, alpha female. It's really coming from brain waves. Alpha is actually an alertness with a calm to it also.

That's sort of the mode you want to be in on a daily basis. That's when you're in control; when you're alert but you're calm.

Suggested Resources

App: N/A

Book: Cracking The Code by Jaret Grossman

Melinda Wittstock is an entrepreneur, journalist, and wonderful example of a mindful person. She runs a company called Verifeed, which uses story and true authenticity to help engage and convert new customers. She not only keeps her company running smoothly, she’s also a traveler, dog owner, and incredible mom. While keeping all these balls in the air, she has a regular routine that includes meditation, exercise, ample sleep, and a generous amount of time with friends.

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Website: www.Verifeed.com

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Email: [email protected]

Most Influential Person

Trish Whynot, Therapist. Also Brene Brown, author.

Effect on Emotions

Level. Like not being guided by emotions. Realizing that emotions are not me. Thoughts are not me, they're passing things. I don't feel like I'm ruled by my emotions. I'd like to think of mindfulness as consciousness.

Thoughts on Breathing

That's huge. Just being able to relax and being observant and in the moment. Breathing is critical.  Ujjaji breath is a type of deep breathing I got into through yoga. With the 'Whole Aponopono' I've been doing there is a kind of box breath, where you breathe in and you hold it and then you're breathing out and you're holding it and it becomes meditative.

Suggested Resources

Book: Mastery of Love / Mastery of Self / The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruis

Book: Zero Limits:  The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More by Joe Vitale

App: Immrama.org

Bullying Story

I was the kid who was different in every way you could possibly imagine. I was the first kid to have divorced parents in my neighborhood and it made me very sensitive.

Some of my report cards say that I would just cry. Well, of course, because my whole life was just crazy back then.

I was also the tallest kid and kind of skinny. I competed in figure skating which meant that I missed a lot of school. So I was different on these accounts.

I used to get bullied and I used to have this sense of shame like there's something wrong with me. The issue with bullying is that it can last.

Speaking of limiting beliefs, that's the kind of thing that you can carry with you for your whole life.

It can leave you with the sense of 'I'm not enough' or 'I can't do it'; even if they're unconscious thoughts. These things sometimes happen very subtly.

Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer. He left behind the life of a stockbroker to break new ground and experience new discoveries. He’s now visited more than 50 countries and traveled to every continent on the planet. When anybody says the word kindness, I literally think of Leon - He’s the host of a terrific TV series called ‘The Kindness Diaries’, which has the subtitle; One Man’s Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World. Before that, he had a show called the 'Amazing Adventures Of A Nobody', which follows Leon on his adventures travelling in America, The UK, and Europe on just $5, $5 pounds or $5 Euros a day. The bottom line is, Leon is all about kindness and helping others and of course that connects directly to the subject of mindfulness.

Contact Info

Website: www.LeonLogothetis.com

Show: The Kindness Diaries TV Show: http://www.leonlogothetis.com/netflix/

Book: The Kindness Diaries by Leon Logothetis

Social Media:  Facebook / Twitter / Instagram: Leon Logothetis or Kindness Diaries

Most Influential Person

A teacher I went with on a journey to India a couple of years ago.

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Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has affected my emotions by enabling me to become more balanced and more centered.  And by enabling me to make better decision and not be so reactive.

Thoughts on Breathing

I never really realized the importance of breathing until I started doing mindfulness.

Often we forget, it sounds silly, but we forget to breathe.

I notice now as I give this talk, I'm actually breathing very shallowly. That's not good.  When I breathe as fully as possible, it kind of invigorates me.

Breathing is a really powerful and important part of mindfulness.

Suggested Resources

Book:The Kindness Diaries by Leon Logothetis

Book: Find a starter course book on Mindfulness on Amazon

App: Buddhify (All about meditation)

Bullying Story

As a kid, I felt very disconnected. At school I was bullied very badly. I had very few friends. I would go to school and feel profoundly alone.

Not just the kids were bullying, but the teachers as well, which I could never understand. It was very disempowering.

I made a commitment to myself that I would do my very best never to disempower someone but to empower them.

When it comes to kindness, people at school specifically were unkind and I didn't understand. I thought, why are you doing this to me? Why are you behaving like this?

I made a commitment that I would give back to people, come from a place of love. That's really how it all began.

I could have dealt with this bullying better by sharing my pain with my parents and with other people that loved me, and I never did. Not until I was 16 or 17. When I started to share it, things started to shift.