Andrea Dunlop

So I wonder kind of like, yeah, how you've navigated that piece because, you know, I was listening to an interview with you.

You're talking about

That you had something like 8 million followers on Instagram and then deleted that account, which I think for people who are, you know, the large number of people that are pretty obsessed with building that kind of following or anything, even sort of a percentage of that kind of following, just sort of –

feels almost just as inconceivable, right?

So yeah, so talk to us about that kind of, that decision and just some of the decisions that you've made around social media and how you've navigated that, because that's just the most intense experience I can imagine on social media.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm glad you're talking about that sort of intense pressure for you because watching from the outside, I just thought this young woman has been through so much.

They have not had time to heal, develop coping mechanisms, all of those things that really I had to do before I was ready to talk about anything that I'd been through publicly.

And there are

like many many important distinctions between you know your experience and mine um namely being that I'm not a survivor of childhood trauma and that is different I was older when I made the decision to talk publicly and it had been a long time since that those events actually sort of happened in my life and I'd had a lot of time to process and something I've thought about a lot as a

I've interviewed various survivors and as I've talked to people who are considering telling their story publicly, whether they're a family member or a direct survivor of the abuse, is trying to help them make sure that they're ready for that because people are going to have opinions.

You cannot control.

I always try and tell people I can make editorial choices about how we tell the story and what to include, but I cannot control how people react.

That's just not something that's under my control.

Yeah.

And that experience, even on the much, you know, smaller level of being on my show, which it's, you know, we're big for a podcast, but we're not talking about, you know, 9 million sort of and like all this huge major media attention that you had.

And like, you know, and I'll even talk to people who...

they really have a good intention around it.

They say, I want to share my story because I want to help other people.

And I think that's a really noble intention.