Emotional Agility - How To Transformed Pain into Purpose - Tricia Parido : 166

What if your deepest pain could become your greatest source of resilience? Tricia’s journey shows that it’s possible through what she calls “emotional agility,” the ability to sit with, navigate, and learn from life’s most challenging moments.

Tricia Parido is a visionary speaker and emotional strategist, creator of Total Emotional Performance—a system that helps high-achievers align their inner game with their outer success. Known for her raw delivery and fierce compassion, she brings real-world psychology that cuts through the fluff of typical self-help advice.

From surviving childhood sexual assault and domestic violence to overcoming autoimmune disease, anxiety, and addiction, Tricia transformed her suffering into strength by listening deeply to her body and creating her own healing blueprint. Today, she helps others do the same, offering tools to navigate challenges with clarity and courage.

Her upcoming book, I’m Not Okay and I’m Not Giving Up, is a decade’s worth of wisdom for anyone seeking peace and purpose. In this episode, discover how emotional agility can turn even life’s most painful chapters into powerful growth.

Let's enjoy her story.

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Chapters

• 2:02 Childhood Trauma and Early Resilience
• 6:06 Teenage Years and Motherhood
• 12:25 Health Struggles and Addiction
• 17:39 Healing Through Food and Self-Discovery
• 27:00 Emotional Agility and Future Projects
• 32:09 Closing Reflections

Transcript

Daniela SM : 0:01

Hi, I'm Daniela. Welcome to my podcast, because Everyone has a Story, the place to give ordinary people's stories the chance to be shared and preserved, or stories become the language of connections. Let's enjoy it, connect and relate, because everyone has a story. My guest is Tricia Pareto, a visionary speaker and emotional strategist, a woman whose life story is proof of the extraordinary strength that can emerge from unimaginable pain. She brings to life the concept of emotional agility, a term she uses with clarity and authenticity, and I really really enjoy it with clarity and authenticity, and I really really enjoy it. Tricia's openness and genuine nature makes her a powerful storyteller and relatable guide. Through her life experiences marked by trauma, resilience and transformation, she demonstrates that healing is not about perfection but about movement, adaptability and trusting our own inner wisdom. I truly enjoy having Tricia on the podcast and love the concept of emotional agility. Let's enjoy her story.

Tricia Parido: 1:13

Welcome Tricia to the show, thank you so much, I'm really happy to be here.

Daniela SM : 1:18

Yes, I'm very happy that you're here too, because I know you have an interesting story. Why do you want to share your story?

Tricia Parido: 1:24

You know, I see so much pain and I feel so much painful energy. You know I want to share with people that we can sit in and move through the hard and the uncomfortable, and I think having the ability to live in a state of emotional agility is just such a gift that I've received in my life that I think, wow, if I can I don't know infuse somebody with a little agile piece.

Daniela SM : 1:55

Yes, and I know that you use a lot the word agility, which I love that word. When does your story start?

Tricia Parido: 2:02

And I really don't like to start there, but my story starts at the age of four and when I reflect back at how did I become this being who can sit in and move through all of the big hard things that life has given me and still embrace the beautiful things that were happening for me and arriving here at 55 years of age and saying, wow, all of these things have purpose.

Daniela SM : 2:31

Yes, that's beautiful, and I guess that is the reason why you have an agile mind At four years old. What happened, wow?

Tricia Parido: 2:39

Yeah, and I'll say, even between the ages of four and seven, right, there was a lot of really cool things. At four years old I got to go to this fun school pilot program and then I was reading, writing, doing arithmetic, playing chess and doing all kinds of really wonderful brain stimulating things, and it's where I cultivated my core base of friends that would follow me until, of course, you know the teen years when we all kind of learning to swim and play piano and all kinds of fun things. But I also experienced some really hard things, experienced my first sexual assault at the age of four. I think I probably exercised being emotionally agile for the first time, although not knowing it right, like it's also the first time I learned oh, let's just not talk about this and let's just shove it away and hide it and store it down, because I didn't, even at the age of four, I didn't go running to mom or dad who were there, because I didn't, even at the age of four, I didn't go running to mom or dad who were there and home at the time.

Tricia Parido: 3:52

You know, I also remember at the age of four, I, you know, I struggled quite a bit. There were multiple episodes a day where I would, you know, stomp my feet and go down the hallway saying nobody loves me. I just, you know, in those early years there was, you know, my siblings poked at me a lot, and they didn't know. They didn't know any better at the time. They were quite a bit older than me, and so they would poke at me and tell me I was the milkman's kid or I belonged to the neighbors and I didn't look a lot like them and I didn't act a lot like them and I didn't act a lot like them. And so they would tell me, you know, I would hear messages from the older people in my life, whether it was my siblings, a grandmother or somebody else in the adult world Between the ages of four and seven.

Tricia Parido: 4:43

I would hear nobody wants to hear what you have to say, and I got a lot of, you know, ridicule for, for being spoiled. So I had all of these external messages coming in, and so it was really quite confusing, because I was being set up to to succeed and to be seen right, go to school and show your talents, give the good grades right, and and there was no pressure to do that and and I was good at all of these things. Yet I was hearing these messages, so I was shrinking on the inside and trying to figure out how to still do all of those things. My dad was killed when I was 12. And that was right after my parents had separated for a period of time. So you went through a really good school, had separated for a period of time.

Daniela SM : 5:25

So you went through a really good school, you were a really good student, you excel, but you still were hearing all these different messages that didn't match. And then you became a teenager, which that is confusing with it in itself, and so what happened there?

Tricia Parido: 5:43

So you know the person that was always in such a great big hurry to grow up.

Daniela SM : 5:47

Well, if you're having older siblings, of course.

Tricia Parido: 5:50

Well, and my siblings were grown in out of the house when my father was killed, and so it was just me and my mom always in a hurry to grow up, but my physical body decided it was also in a hurry my biological clock started ticking at the age of 16. I made the choice right, Like I listened to my body and I became a mother by I was a mom at 17. There was a reason for that here I listened to my body and the universe was showing me the ability to listen and to hear what was actually being said, Because after my son, I lost two, developed severe endometriosis and had a few near-death experiences, and so that was my one and only opportunity to have my child. That was like. You have this innate ability and talent to know what's going on and to hear and to listen and to trust and to follow what is being communicated to you, and so you know that was a big blessing.

Daniela SM : 6:56

Wow, that's amazing that at such a young age that you were able to listen to your body and to know, the majority of the people will feel mortified that oh my God, it's so young. But here you are in the opposite, feeling that that's what needs to happen.

Tricia Parido: 7:12

Yeah, and I just chose for the majority of it. You know I was a single mom. His dad was in the picture. We were, we were young right, we were young. We tried to make it work. It was ugly for a while. Yes, without any disparaging intent, our relationship was ugly. There was some domestic violence. You know other inappropriate things.

Tricia Parido: 7:34

I did have periods of time where I did, you know, some trauma drinking, but we figured it out and we figured it out as two individual beings, right with a child that we loved and cared for very, very deeply and were able to navigate that Fast forward. You know, with my spouse now and our very beautifully combined family like we always with all the kids did combined birthdays and even just regular holidays We'd say, hey, come over All of these little things that I can look at through my life that you know were. I used to say you know, gosh, I have the ability to pull myself up by the bootstraps and wade through the you know the garbage, to sit in and move through hard things. Again, there was you know the early on, you know sexual assault when I was a child. But there were several others through my life that were between the age of 12 and 23 that were.

Tricia Parido: 8:33

You know probably a little more. You know what people would refer to. You know mainstream sexual assault, mainstream rape. I had to learn how to navigate and not close myself off. If you look at some of the things that I endured that could be connected to that, there was anorexia, body dysmorphia, poor self-esteem. Realizing that my self-worth wasn't tied to the size of my waist food was something that was important, right, the restricting was pretty significant for me during a period of my life. And, again, all trauma-induced right, like relationships not working out, navigating, being a single parent, showing up as a single parent for that child, even though all of these other things were going on in my life.

Daniela SM : 9:26

And you had your mother's support.

Tricia Parido: 9:28

You know I did, and so that was, you know, key for me in those first three years. It was critical and I did. One of my other siblings had you know, we had kids kind of in around at the same time my oldest sister, so she would watch all the grandchildren. It was normal because all the kids would go to grandma's to play and hang out and sometimes have sleepovers and sometimes not. It was wonderful.

Daniela SM : 9:51

And you did get along with your sister, I think you know sibling, care and love.

Tricia Parido: 9:57

When it comes to that, you know, when I got pregnant with my son, I also uncovered something that was a bit of a shock that biologically I had a different father than who raised me and was removed from my life abruptly in a motorcycle accident when I was 12. When I got pregnant I figured this fact out right, like my blood type wasn't the same as anybody else's. So anyway, I figured that out. So you know there was some of that in there also, because all of the stories they would say to me that I didn't belong, that I didn't look like them, I didn't act like them, I was so much different, really came true. They were right, I was.

Tricia Parido: 10:42

I had to navigate that and it played a big role in my life because here I went some very important years without a father figure and could have had one. But then, in the same respect, you know what, I wouldn't have changed my life or my lifestyle that my mother and I created for ourselves, because it created who I am today and I have a wonderful adult relationship with my biological father and have had since I was 18 years old. So just a lot of complexity. And so you look back at that and you go, yes, well, they have to be agile. Definitely yes, because what else are you going to do? Get rigid, be angry, be bitter, you know, be hurt, be scorned and fall apart or I don't know. Sit in and move through it and see how it can be something great going forward and you figured this out by yourself.

Daniela SM : 11:37

Like I should be agile versus not.

Tricia Parido: 11:40

I didn't know that's what I was doing, right Like I figured this stuff out over the last 12 plus years. I was just studying behavioral psychology and comparing it to the different things and how I handled and navigated things through life and being able to connect the dots back to that. And I did that in studying the behavioral psych in my own recovery journey. I have developed generalized anxiety disorder and, if I back up a little bit right like those near-death experiences led to a full hysterectomy after suffering physically for 10 years because nobody was going to give an 18-year-old a hysterectomy when things really started going bad. So I had to wait a decade. So I had multiple abdominal surgeries to try to keep things functioning. At 29, I had a full hysterectomy. I was already in full-blown menopause. That's what I meant. Not only was I emotionally, cognitively advanced and well beyond my years, my physical body was in a hurry. So I had to then say, well, how am I going to reverse engineer this? Well, first I developed four autoimmune diseases rheumatoid arthritis I was battling, mixed connective tissue disease, Sjogren and gastroparesis. I developed generalized anxiety disorder after my hysterectomy. Hormone levels were wrong, et cetera, et cetera.

Tricia Parido: 13:16

I was a low-level daily drinker, Couple Coors, Lights in the evening Weekends. Sure, right, Like my husband and I would, you know, maybe drink more than that around the pool. Sure, knowing what I know now, I could have diagnosed myself as having an alcohol dependence. I grew up that way. I was a child of the 70s Not to placate it, right, Because, like I said, there was trauma, drink, late adolescence and early 20s, which is normal to come along with numerous sexual assaults, et cetera. You know, my medical provider prescribed me Xanax, very deadly combination which I came to learn afterwards, and they prescribed it to me over the course of five years.

Tricia Parido: 13:56

And so it was a very quiet, physiological addiction that that happened. And so there was a day that I was like I had to tell my husband like I need to go, I need to go to a detox, like a medical detox, and he's like, why now? And I'm like because I can't not. So the two had become synergistic and dependent upon in my physical body. I found myself a maintenance drinker and somebody who had to have a certain amount of Xanax every day, and it was just and I couldn't go without that. Right, Like I wasn't. It wasn't to levels of such severe intoxication that I was like laying on the couch passed out. It was a maintenance. I was a control freak, high achieving control freak, and I'm like this doesn't work for me, but you were working and high functioning and everything with all that.

Daniela SM : 14:45

Yes, I was a stay-at-home mother.

Tricia Parido: 14:49

right between the two of us we had five children. My husband traveled a lot for business. Our oldest daughter had cancer when she was a freshman in high school.

Daniela SM : 14:57

But you still figured out that you did have a problem, because it seems like you were working really well with all that.

Tricia Parido: 15:03

Yeah, physically, I started to have withdrawal symptoms that I had never had before in my life at the age of 43. I'm like I don't know what's happening, but this isn't right. So I went to a medical detox. So this is how I got into the whole behavioral psych realm, you know, because I had to know what happened.

Tricia Parido: 15:20

In that studying I uncovered that when folks are reliant on things outside of themselves to bring them peace, joy, comfort, relief, right, so that could be alcohol, that could be pills, xanax, that could be sugar, it could be food of any kind, it could be the Amazon shopping cart, it could be the people-cleansing codependency. It's the perfectionism, it's all those things we're relying on the social media, the thumbs up to validate us After detoxification and deciding like, hey, my recovery journey is going to look like a whole lot of education. I'm done. Never turned back Completely sober. I have no desire to alter my cognitive way of being, my emotional way of being. I figure what the heck right, like this thing called living is supposed to be experience.

Tricia Parido: 16:11

I had all four of those autoimmune diseases attacking my body. So here's my body talking to me again, because I didn't doesn't make it right for anybody else, but I started listening to my body and in doing so I was able to remove all four of them. I did that with my relationship with food, so I figured out exactly which foods negatively impacted the functioning of my body, modified how I eat, how I get nourishment, vitamins, minerals all the things to work for my unique system. Of course, I tried all of the cookie cutter copy paste things the low FODMAP, the this, the that. Nothing served me. So I created the right version for my physical body and I no longer have any of those things. They don't show up in blood tests nothing.

Daniela SM : 17:01

But that's the hard part, Like you know. Yes, you have always been, since you were 16, listening to your body. Very well, but how does other people can? That's just very difficult.

Tricia Parido: 17:13

Well, and the cool part is, remember I said, if we go back, when I was doing my behavioral psych studies, I started looking at the theories, the methods, the standardized practices and looking at how was I already using those things in my life? Where did I use them? How did it serve me? And then I converted them. I converted them to a we'll call it a coaching modality, created the entire system and then a blueprint for myself, like, oh, this is cool, right, like I can use this for anything that life throws at me, going forward from today on right Back then, and it works, and it worked well for me.

Tricia Parido: 17:59

And I still eat, sleep, breathe it. It has become part of who I am, it is my being. And so when I was doing my internship and getting my supervised hours, I started sharing my blueprint, the way that I learned how to incorporate these theories, methods and modalities into my life, when I started teaching people how to also do that for themselves. And that's when I started uncovering that you know the standardized or the self-help book Not that I don't like self-help books I'm working on one myself right now right, but you know, if we learn how to look at a concept and say how can I use this in my life in a way that serves me in this situation, that situation, whatever it is, then we're onto something. So that's what I did.

Daniela SM : 18:58

Can you be more specific? Can you give me an example of how you did the?

Tricia Parido: 19:01

food. The Locus of Control Theory by Julian Rotter. Well, most people wouldn't know that one, but think about Mel Robbins' Let them and I alluded to this one earlier. Right, we're looking at things outside of us, we're sad. We go to the ice cream aisle at the store, we buy a bucket of ice cream and there we go. That's an external locus of control In this theory.

Tricia Parido: 19:23

We were all born in the external locus of control position. Cry to get a bottle or change our diaper. As we grow we learn to stand up, walk, pull up our pants, go to the bathroom, which is moving to the internal locus of control position, which we're all supposed to. We're supposed to navigate through how to be for ourselves. But here's where society kind of derails that right. And as parents we don't know we're doing it. But kid falls down, scrapes their knee. What do you do? While you're cleaning it up, you put a popsicle in their mouth. You teach them that as a soothing tactic, versus a self-soothing tactic which is allowing that kid to sit there and be upset because they're in pain, they're scared or whatever. While you're cleaning it and allow them to see that the popsicle will have no bearing on your ability to keep going forward.

Tricia Parido: 20:17

When kids do well in school, we give them accolades, gold stars, we praise them. It's their job to do their best and we need to teach them to ask for help when they're struggling. Instead, we teach them we're going to praise you, praise you, praise you. And then, when they are struggling, they're like oh God, they're going to think I'm dumb or bleh. So this is that locus of control. We have to figure out how to be okay, regardless whether we're doing well, we can be proud of ourselves, or if we're struggling, we can say can I get some help with this? So I took theories, methods and modalities, like the locus of control theory, and I created an entire system.

Daniela SM : 20:56

How do you do the food? How do you listen to your body?

Tricia Parido: 21:01

Oh, that takes dedication. You have to spend time, so you have to not put 20 different things in your gut at the same time, right, if you don't make a big salad. I love salads with all kinds of things seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, all the things in the salad, the protein because then you don't know what your body's react, right? So it's kind of a slow process. I know how to pull out and read symptoms, but for me what I identified was nightshades. So tomatoes, peppers, things like that, right, they cause me inflammation. I was drinking kombucha thinking, oh, I'm doing something great. And every time I did, my gut would just stand and I'm like, well, this makes zero sense. And I looked and they all had ginger in them. It's about leaning in and truly listening, which means you know you log your food, sure, but the more important part is the logging of cognitively, emotionally and physically. How do I feel every single hour?

Daniela SM : 22:05

So you were eating one thing.

Tricia Parido: 22:07

No, I would eat a couple of things, so like I would have a protein and I would choose a vegetable right Like, not a medley, so you can identify right Like I knew chicken didn't bug me, I knew fish didn't bug me, and so you discovered that there were mostly vegetables that were causing issues, because obviously you were eating clean, otherwise, like you were not eating potatoes or pasta.

Tricia Parido: 22:35

No, right, Like I struggle because you know I don't get to have my red sauce and I have to be very choosy and limited with my pasta, my bread, my salami, my cheese. So it was identifying how much cheese I can have and of what kind, before it starts provoking my body. Just last night I made a thousand island dressing with a little bit of ketchup. I could feel it coming out of my body when I went to bed. I was itchy, my skin felt like it was crawling just because I had a little bit of tomato. But that's how much.

Tricia Parido: 23:11

I've broken it down and know how to identify. Now I've been at it for years, but I spent a solid year and I would say if somebody wants to dedicate a year, they'll find out. Yes, I had to remove refined sugars. Refined sugars are very inflammatory and refined sugars are in a lot of foods. So it's about knowing like, hey, if I want a sauce, I've got to make it myself, because that's the only way it's not going to have those things they put in it when you were on vacation.

Daniela SM : 23:40

You ate things that you wouldn't eat here. It didn't affect you.

Tricia Parido: 23:45

Oh, yes, yes and yes, I can go to Italy and eat an entire pizza. So when I'm here and I'm eating pasta, right like, I buy pasta that's been imported from Italy so that I have that different quality that I know my body will tolerate. My longest relationship and the thing that I have to pay attention to the most, is my relationship with food, because it is tied to so many things. It's tied to my physical well-being, eating disorders, it's tied to body dysmorphia, it's tied to all kinds of things, and so it's probably the one that I embrace the most.

Daniela SM : 24:23

Yes, so it's quite interesting. I was going to say that you were also a bit empathic because you were able to think about the body. It's not easy to be to listen. I mean I listened. Sometimes I had a lot of you know, I like somehow I get bloated, like I'm five months pregnant, and he heard so much that I cannot even close my pants. So at the beginning I thought it was you know, endometriosis and stuff, and I went through a similar operations like you and then I had a partial hysterectomy and since then I said, okay, it's cure, I'm never gonna have this again. But then I realized that it's not true that when I get stressed or something, I just get this.

Tricia Parido: 25:06

You know, I mean it could be a lot of things, right, like, of course we have to, you know, break it down. For me that could have been oh, was there a cucumber in that thing I just ate? Was there a raw onion that I didn't notice? It could be a lot of things. It could just be leaky gut from.

Daniela SM : 25:23

Whatever you, ate and it's just it, just no. Sometimes it's in the morning. You know, I wake up in the morning and I drank some water and immediately, like I, I feel that it's coming and I'm like, what did I do? Nothing has happened. What is it?

Tricia Parido: 25:37

well, you gotta look back 72 hours or more, right depending. For me, with gastroparesis meaning slow digestion things would take four days to process through my body. It's just very interesting.

Daniela SM : 25:53

But you're correct, I am very empathic and it's something you learn about your body and you start to be observant about your food intake and you took away those four illness, that you had immunological issues, right. And then what happened? Do you always knew that you were empathic and you developed that too, or you just developed that now? What else have you been doing since then?

Tricia Parido: 26:23

I look back at my life and know that I've been empathic my whole life, but I didn't learn about it. I didn't see that that's what it was until my journey throughout this last 10, 15 years.

Daniela SM : 26:35

Were you were studying behavioral science.

Tricia Parido: 26:38

So the more interested I became in myself and studying and learning and comparing, and so the more interested we come in ourselves as beings, the less we see oh, that happened to me because of this negative person or that or person, right, like when I was raped 13 year old, you know, take that on and be like, this person did this to me, right? So, you know, when I talk about these things that happened to me in my life, right, I'm able to say, like that was the bad act of another being. It had zero to do with me, it was merely the vessel, and if it hadn't have been me, it would have been somebody else. I lived through it, I survived where, where perhaps most other or many other young ladies would crumble. So. So perhaps it was so that I could show like other people, like you, don't have to let the bad act of another being define who you are. You can still succeed, you can still have a great life, you can still have your big family, your good career, yada, yada.

Daniela SM : 27:47

So then, after these, you decided to become a coach.

Tricia Parido: 27:50

You know, originally I thought I would want to be in standardized practice right Like I went to school so that I could go work in the industry and help people emotionally and to overcome addictions, eating disorders et cetera. Early in my studies I realized talk therapy and counseling really wasn't my personality. I discovered the coaching modality. So I don't necessarily call myself a coach but I do practice for my coaching modality because it's forward moving, it's problem aware, solution focused, it's right, and so what are you up to now?

Daniela SM : 28:27

You said that you wanted to write your writing book.

Tricia Parido: 28:31

You know, I have my core foundational system blueprint whatever methods and modalities that that I that I utilize and and then I have this amazing focus group where every month we just have a, you know, advanced focus that we're that we work on right throughout the whole month and we get together once a week and, like this month we were, our focus was emotional agility, so we worked on that all month long and and so in in the recording of that I've been doing some transcribing.

Tricia Parido: 29:10

So what I really am looking to be putting together is, well, the title of it is going to be I'm Not Okay and I'm Not Giving Up here Really going to be the transcription of me teaching each of the lessons, and I just did a wonderful, well-deserved it's been over a decade, it's time to update recordings of it. So it's going to be a book that can go along with the program or could be standalone. I have a lot of clients that like to write down everything I say and I'm like ah right, so we'll put it in a book format. It'll be interactive. So many versions of the worksheets will be there, but I believe I'm going to also do an audible version so that people can listen while they're reading and they can write in there at the same time. And it's, it's just going to be a wonderful companion for a year long journey.

Daniela SM : 30:08

Wonderful, and when do you think you're going to have that done?

Tricia Parido: 30:11

Oh, goodness gracious, I'm hoping early next year.

Daniela SM : 30:15

Oh, wow, that's pretty good. Yes, it sounds really interesting and I and I think that if you sharing your story too, it's quite interesting because people can relate more when when they hear like you know, it's just, you're just no, just saying it, it worked for you. Although when they hear like you know, it's just, you know, just saying it, it worked for you. Although you know everybody has their formula and nobody's the same as others. We know that. I know that already. Yeah.

Tricia Parido: 30:39

I tell people I'm like hey, don't even use my formula, add it, delete, change, shift, morph it.

Daniela SM : 30:43

Let me give you the concept we all have to learn and it took me years. I'm not satisfied with the answer that we are all different and there's no one formula for everyone. I will have prefer that it will be one formula so I can move on with other things that I want to do, but no, you, you know, with exercise, with food, spiritual things, everybody has their own way for me, and I always have said this that we are here to learn who we are and what fit us, and that's all we have and is is difficult because the society doesn't teach us that, and so we spend so many years thinking about other people and trying to copy all this other things instead of like hearing us yeah, hearing us more disable all.

Tricia Parido: 31:32

My life motto, which is in my, is one of my favorite things in the world, because once I took it on as my life motto, when I when I wrote it for myself, I went, oh wow, this is really cool, cause I get to give it to every other being on the planet, and so my life's motto is this is my life too. It gets to look, feel, be however I want it to. I get to choose right Like. I don't have to, I don't have to fit in any box.

Daniela SM : 32:00

Yes, that's true. We put things in boxes because it's easier to understand that, but of course it's not right.

Tricia Parido: 32:06

Just start getting interested in yourself and whatever that looks like. The best thing we can do for ourselves is to worry about and to think about what we think, feel, believe and need. You know the core foundation right is live for yourself first, and then you can really go forward from there. So when we have that deeper understanding and knowledge and we learn how to actually utilize emotional intelligence, not just know what emotional intelligence is, then we can actually live in a state of emotional agility and experience abundant peace.

Daniela SM : 32:49

Yes, and you know, having your agility mindset, all the negative you turned it into having a lot of positive rather than having more negative. So, yes, this is wonderful. So, tricia, thank you so much for sharing your story. I know it was a reader's digest. It was super interesting and I really appreciate all the lessons. Oh, it's always wonderful to be was a reader's digest. It was super interesting and I really appreciate all the lessons.

Tricia Parido: 33:13

Oh, it's always wonderful to be in a space with you.

Daniela SM : 33:16

Thank you so much. Thank you. Tricia's journey shows me that our pain does not define us. It refined us if we are ready or open. I am grateful for the way she showed up here todayest, unfiltered and with a heart wide open. It made me reflect on my own capacity for resilience and the wisdom that comes from listening to oneself Spread the word and share this episode, allowing the ordinary magic to go further. Join me next time for another story conversation. Thank you for listening. Hasta pronto.