Roxie Nafousi

I said, what do you mean?

They said, well, if I tell them, they're going to think I'm weak.

And I said, no, I think when you tell them, they're going to realize you're strong because they're all dealing with similar things.

And they're scared of telling you because they don't think you know what they're going through.

And so I think there are going to be so many people listening right now who go, Roxy, thank you for saying that because I just assumed you have it perfect and your life's perfect and you're so confident.

And actually you're showing me that

what you said earlier that you can be a masterpiece and a work in progress all at the same time is actually what we're all dealing with.

And as soon as we believe someone is fully confident, that doesn't fully help us because then we're always measuring ourselves thinking, why am I not there?

And when we realize, oh, everyone's healing, there's no one who's healed, then as long as I'm healing, I'm on the right path.

So I just think, hopefully, I think people will listen and feel that way.

The second thing I'll say is, to me, there's,

I think we know very little about the human mind and brain, especially when it comes to a lot of these anxiety disorders.

I have friends, my wife has friends who have severe cases of OCD.

And it's so easy when you hear about the problem to just be like, well,

how does that make any sense?

It doesn't make any sense.

Just do it anyway.

And we can kind of throw these band-aid answers onto severe issues that we actually don't understand.

And the more I've done the work I've been doing in coaching and my friends who are therapists that I learned from, and when we're working on clients together and I'm learning about what clients are going through, the more compassion and empathy I've gained for

things that I don't understand because it's so easy to be like, well, my brain doesn't work that way and I can't compute it and comprehend it.