Would you like to share some more stories about your vision?
Hmm.
Well, you know, as I'm a psychotherapist,
and I've noticed over the years that I tend to do
what I've always done, even when I was a child,
is I tend to stick up for people who are being bullied.
I had a story back when I was in junior high
and there was a girl that went to the church that I went to,
and she was very, very quiet and very passive
and didn't really feel very good about herself.
And because of that, she got bullied quite a bit.
And I remember back in the day that I just,
I would stand beside her,
and if there was someone that was saying something to her,
I would just like look at them like,
mm, you know, you better back down.
I'd save a place for her at the table at the cafeteria
because she didn't have anywhere to sit.
She would sit by herself.
So I'd always been kind of a champion of the underdog.
And I noticed as I started going through
as a psychotherapist, and I would see people,
and they would come in and I was noticing more and more
and more of their issues were boundary related.
And I started feeling more and more strongly
about wanting to help them champion themselves
to be able to go out and to be able to stand
in their interpersonal relationships at home
with their family members,
which frequently are the hardest relationships
to set boundaries, if we're being brutally honest.
Also with friends at times,
because friends can kind of, those friendships
can make themselves known as being
maybe not actually friendships.
And then also at work,
for people to be able to understand
when they get the rules,
then they can be so much stronger
and they can have these, the hard conversations.
It just, it makes my heart just so warm
to envision people that I've trained.
And I hear them say this when my patients will come back
and they'll say, Dana, I was in such and such situation
with somebody the other day
and I heard your voice in my head.
I hear your voice in my head telling me,
you've got a right to your opinion
and you have the right to say no
and someone else's expectations,
they have a right to them,
but I have a right to my own expectations as well.
And so when I see these things
and I see these boundary ideas and tenants
playing out in people's lives,
and I see them pulling up and becoming stronger
and not being victimized by manipulators and narcissists
or just general people around them
who they don't feel like they can stand up to,
it is just, it's an amazing, an amazing feeling.
And that is my passion and my vision
to be able to train people to be able to do that.
It's just amazing.