Jamie Kern Lima

Can you talk about the layers of awakening?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's really important to call out.

One of the layers you talk about in your book that I think a lot of people are going to relate to is when you say that we unconsciously recreate the emotional patterns we grew up with, even when they're hurting us.

Can you share a little bit about that?

Because I did that.

I dated that many times.

But yeah, yeah.

And we don't even realize we're doing it, right?

Like sometimes we're like, why do I keep having a friend that just doesn't show up for me the way I show up for them?

Why can't I make good friends as an adult?

Or why do I keep dating people that just mistreat me?

And we think it's like bad luck or something like that.

But it's like when you really start to understand this and you do such a good job talking about so many of these things in Spirit Daughter,

It's like, oh, wait, that's what's comfortable to me.

And I'm probably subconsciously thinking that's what I'm worthy of or that's what I'm comfortable around or whatever it might be.

So you say we're biologically set up to forget our own amazingness.

So can you explain that?

And also, you know, for the person listening right now who's like, huh.

Have I even thought about my own amazingness?