Like many helping professionals, I serve from my history and I grew up in a house full of chaos, and a number of years ago, I happened to meet with someone who was completing her master’s in social work and wanted to meet with me individually for therapy in order to meet her requirements for school. And on our second session, she said, so you grew up in an alcoholic, abusive family and the air left the room. I thought to myself, we don’t say that out loud. And the next thing I thought was, this is what I’m going to do with the rest of my life to help people. I realized over time that not just the trauma piece was important, but the way that trauma impacts relationships.