Jessica Lanyadoo

Like there's like a drawing function where you can like, okay.

So then you could take black, like a black pen and use your finger to black it out instead of delete it as a practice, right?

This is a practice of giving yourself permission to have the feelings and holding them lightly.

You can come back to the content later.

It's holding the feelings lightly.

Yeah.

You've been doing this with children in your adult life.

You know how to do this with children already.

So it's about parenting yourself with kindness as a foundation for whatever comes next with this tiny little miracle inside of you.

Little alien peanut.

The shell has work to do, but so will the peanut.

That's just how it goes.

That's just how it goes.

So does that address and answer your question?

So your mom's selfishness came from her not being emotionally present for herself, actually.

Does that track for you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like she put all this energy into shoving down her feelings and her needs that she then eventually with time did what happens to almost everybody.

She became defensive.