Dr. Nicole LePera

And we are very blinded to ourselves.

So sometimes the feedback from a loved one who's close, while it might be uncomfortable, is helpful to hear.

Other times it's a helpful boundary, right, where you are not...

opening yourself up to the opinion of someone else who maybe has a different vantage point or are speaking from their own projection.

So that's allowed me to create a safety in myself, a confidence in myself, which is translated to that flow that I was describing.

So speaking from my kind of family of origin, they've always been, thankfully, you know, people that have celebrated me, you know, in the ways that I've been able to excel.

They're my biggest cheerleaders, my dad and my sister, who are still very much alive and a part of my family and close.

I did lose my mom about five years ago now when I went online.

So they were similarly celebrating to some extent my success.

I think in the beginning there was a little bit of

Running a business, being an entrepreneur, my life completely changed.

I was not just running a therapy practice now.

I'm running a 24-7 virtual membership.

So I had to have new boundaries coming from a family who had had no boundaries, had an expectation.

I come from an Italian family that for Sunday supper, you were there.

And there was like a expectation that I'd be more present than in the beginning I was able.

So that was the first kind of set of boundaries, which I do think to some extent was...

disappointing was hurtful, right?

They took it personally, though they very much supported what I was doing.

But I mean, I would be lying if I said there wasn't then the reality of what I was doing and sharing in my business was built on sharing my life, right?