Mercedes Coffman

A lot of people will continue the trauma that was inflicted on them, but they do it themselves.

At some point in adulthood, they start becoming the perpetrator to their own pain.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's so funny.

They're like, it's so kind.

So you're so kind.

And that's I love Dr. Gabor Mate.

He talks a lot about that, where he says, if you go and look at all the eulogies of people who died in early death.

They'll talk about how this man would give the shirt off his back to anybody.

He was the kindest person.

And nobody looks at, well, that may have led to the self-abandonment that

increased his inflammation, suppressed his immune system, and eventually got him to be dead now.

And fix it.

And that's the thing.

I think that we don't look at that enough.

And I think it just keeps us becoming even more and more isolated from ourselves, right?

And so the question then becomes, how can we expect ourselves to get in aligned connections when we're misaligned within ourselves, right?

Because everything's a reflection.

If I'm not aligned with...