When You Drop The Role And Let Yourself Be Human

you were going to share something that also came to mind there when you said I'm going to cry again. Like >> I think it's the the releasing of the titles. >> Yeah. >> And how that immediately just it's like almost like the walls crumble. >> Yeah. >> And you're able to >> Yeah.

>> look at something from like its purest form. >> Yeah. Yeah. And for a parent like you, and I'm sure many of your listeners are, I remember there was someone I had helped who was like the quintessential mother almost to the point of like their kids lived a five-star life, you know, like

she did okay and had some resources, but it was really the way she showed up with so much love and so much kindness. And there was one morning and I'd showed, you know, she was just exhausted and at times obviously felt rightly so frustrated but knew they're just kids. But it's like at what point do I get a

[ __ ] break or Yeah. You know, and >> she shared one morning, you know, that she'd made breakfast for a son and he said, "Well, mom, I I don't like this." So, of course, being mom, she made another gourmet breakfast, right? And that also wasn't quite to his liking. It wasn't like he was a snoody, snobby kid.

It was just he was just being a kid. And I don't like it. just telling the way it is. >> Sounds familiar. [laughter] Keep going. >> And it just happened to be, you know, that catalyst for her to lose it, you know. And she went over and said, you know, sometimes I just want to be Lisa. I just

I don't want to be mom. And she was balling. and her she said she'd never had such a expression of love from her kids cuz they don't see that right cuz you're too busy having this perfected persona that's creating this like Ritz Carlton experience for the kids every day it's like they don't know that