Matthew Lawrence
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389 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Matthew Lawrence’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And maybe we need to take time away.
And that can be really hard because people will make us feel guilty or we actually wanna be there but we're not being accommodated, which then brings up the other idea of why are these people who I'm close with and who love me actually accommodating me?
Right?
And that's the thing I I I comes up a lot.
in the Jewish community, but I think also in all in all communities.
Right?
And it becomes kind of ground zero for self advocacy, which we can look at as a negative thing.
Right?
And like, oh my God, I have to advocate for myself, but also, okay, this is an advocate situation where I have I don't wanna say
More control because a lot of us don't have positive relationships with our families, right?
But maybe more control than we might have in a work situation or in a public situation.
Yeah.
So like a big thing for me when it comes to the holidays is that I always make sure that both like whoever the host is, whether that's my parents or my in-laws or aunts or uncles, whoever might be hosting an event like this.
I always make sure that the host and everybody who's attending knows that
I in order to preserve my mental health and my self regulation
I am gonna have to leave the dinner table at multiple times during dinner.
And I'm not gonna make an announcement, I'm not gonna go, and I'm just gonna have to do that.
And you might say, well that's socially faux pas and that's this.
That's what I need.
It's like I have to do that or I can't come at all.
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