You're Not Bad at Relationships. You're Just Carrying Something That Was Never Yours.

You've felt it. That slow, creeping distance from the people you love most. The relationship that looks fine on the outside but feels like something is just slightly out of reach on the inside. And somewhere along the way, you decided that meant something was wrong with you.Andrew Wallace wants you to know that it doesn't.Andrew is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in play therapy, family therapy, and trauma-informed care. His work sits at the intersection of generational trauma, attachment theory, and the quiet relationship patterns most of us carry into adulthood without ever realizing it. But what makes this conversation different is not his credentials. It is the way he reframes everything. The cycles you keep repeating in your relationships are not character flaws. They are generational knowledge. Learned. Inherited. And most importantly, changeable.In this episode, Andrew breaks down why real empathy is so rare and what it actually looks like when you get it right, how your childhood attachment style, whether anxious, avoidant, or otherwise, is quietly running your adult relationships, what most parents are getting wrong about discipline and connection, and why the most powerful relationship skill you will ever develop starts with the one you have with yourself.Brad gets personal in this one too, opening up about his own anxious attachment style and what it has looked like to start untangling the nervous system patterns and family of origin wounds he carried into his own relationships without even knowing it. If you have ever felt stuck in a cycle you could not name, this episode will name it for you.This is a conversation about emotional healing, relationship dysfunction, inner child work, and what it actually means to break a generational cycle. Not with a dramatic overhaul, but with one honest inventory at a time.Andrew's closing thought is worth sitting with: the most powerful thing you can do right now is not a new strategy or a new communication skill. It is the courage to look at what is working and what is not. Because you cannot give to the people you love what you have never given to yourself first.About Andrew Wallace: Andrew Wallace is a licensed clinical social worker and play therapist at ATL Well, a group private practice in Marietta, Georgia. He specializes in trauma-informed therapy, identity work, family therapy, and is currently training to become a certified sex addiction therapist.atlwell.com/andrew-wallace