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Jan 2020
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230 How to STOP Walking on Eggshells, No...

TERRI COLE
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Today we're talking about how to stop walking on eggshells and how to understand why we are compelled to walk on eggshells in the first place.

"A lot of times our own disfunction is that we're still responding like we're in our childhood homes, but we're not." - Terri Cole

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