Louise Thompson

And there are people that will say, God, you know, you don't have to do this.

Like, are you are you right?

Like, is it going to be too much?

I do feel like four years on, you know, I've had the experience.

the year of survival.

I've had the year of kind of acceptance and then like the learning and the overcoming.

And this is, I suppose, what post-traumatic growth really looks like is feeling equipped to take on this big challenge.

And I think that there are a lot of people, you know, I'm not the first person to walk in these shoes.

I think so many of the people that I admire, whether it's like Matt Haig, you know, writing his books about depression, a lot of people that have been through something really awful decide that they...

want to do something with that.

And I think it's because when you've suffered so much, you feel the pain so intensely, like you've experienced that more than anything, any other like human lived experience, you become obsessed with it, you research it.

And I'd say it's probably why a lot of like therapists as well

end up, a lot of therapists are people that have been through something really traumatic and have had to work through their own stuff.

They've worked with therapists.

They realize that they're an expert in that, in understanding and in connecting with other people that have been through something really deep.

And they then go, yeah, I can recognize that in other people and I really want to help.

And I guess that's kind of, I'm not saying, I definitely don't have the time to train to be a therapist and I'd be terrible.

I'm terrible at listening.

But, Ryan will tell you that.

But I do... Yeah, I don't know.