Wendy K. Laidlaw

now you have this relationship with your body because you've also dealt with some, you know, you've touched on some emotional aspects as well, but you really feel comfortable now with your body.

You might not necessarily like it sometimes when it's saying and doing certain things, but you have, I think, more of a compassionate nature and relationship with it.

We're almost like, I refer to it as almost like a child.

Sometimes a child needs attention.

and it has to do things to get attention.

If you look at a sort of a four or five or a six year old child, what the child, what they do to get attention, they can like, hello, can you hear me?

You see me?

Yep.

And then ignore them.

They shout louder.

And that's like what it's like with the body.

That's right, because we talked about the parts and, you know, yeah, the various parts of you that also need...

to be heard as well.

And again, that's where the journaling comes in.

We can see you again now.

It's also got a bit dark there.

Well, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me.

You've just done so well yourself.

You've

I mean, from where you started, from where you are now, I really hope that you do take the time to reflect on how far you've come and really acknowledge how you've had some real dramas, some real emotional testers come to your life, but you've carried them.