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Is there a story behind your why?

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You know, why you're why you chose self-regulation and how you're helping people come about self-regulating?

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You know, I guess there's probably the collective and the personal.

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When Stephen and I, my husband, first met in 2001 and we were asking each other,

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what do you think some of the biggest issues are globally for humanity on Earth at this time?

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You know, and again, that's 2001.

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And we kept, we were exploring all these different places because we were saying to ourselves,

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there isn't anything we can't do and there isn't anywhere we can't go.

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We were young, we were in love, we were like, what do you want to do?

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You know, and so it came and we're still in love.

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And I have to say that.

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And we kept coming to stress that it was one of the most debilitating factors for,

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I don't care if you're a child or you're a young parent, great example,

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or you're a climbing entrepreneur executive or you're aging or taking care of aging parents.

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It doesn't matter what career or what stage in life you're in.

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Stress is ubiquitous and I think we've never really learned how to manage, regulate or understand it.

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Unless we have really dedicated ourselves, unless you are a meditation practitioner,

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you're a yogini, you are going to school to study psychology or counseling or whatever,

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then people delve in.

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But most people don't have it.

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And so that was a big part of the why is how can we have a great impact on the world?

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For a place or at a place where there's a great need.

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Personally, I grew up in a perfectly beautiful dysfunctional home with all manner of stress and trauma.

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And I mean, you know, infidelity and alcoholism and drug abuse and mental illness and all of the things.

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And when I finally did my ACE test, if you know the adverse childhood experiences test,

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you don't know what you got to take.

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It's so easy. It's 10 questions, I think.

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10 questions and it takes you five minutes to take it and ask you very key questions about your childhood.

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OK.

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And I scored, I think, an eight out of 10 on the ACE score, which is quite high.

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I should be on the streets at this time rather than, you know, happily and lovingly married and having a home and a business.

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And but I was really dedicated.

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I was very curious.

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And that's the biggest why behind my story was that I was living at with some of the worst results of stress and trauma and seeking dearly and desperately to resolve them.

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And so that's what I meant by the why is collective and personal.