Lili Padman

Is the muscle analogy not good or is it good?

When we use...

certain thoughts that embolden certain pathways?

It's such an empowering way to look at it all because you have absolutely no sway over what happened to you 30 years ago.

That's done.

You're so right.

When it hits me the most is I'll be watching some documentary on chimpanzees.

And, you know, they're probably our closest thing to look at.

And these little babies, they get fucked up.

These alpha males will come through and they'll be thrashing the jungle and they'll throw one 30 feet and everything.

And I just am watching that and I'm like...

It's curious to me that they're so resilient.

They go through what we would call capital T trauma almost daily.

Oh yeah, their lives are vicious.

They still persevere, right?

And I look at that and I'll go, as much as I do like honoring what has happened to us, we also have forgotten how fucking resilient we are.

You can't live with this many members of a group and not be traumatized many times.

So that brings me to that chapter 10 about causality.

Yes, I've circled that one.

I wanted to talk about that.