Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

Every family writes a script—often without realizing it. A script about who you’re allowed to be, what role you’reexpected to play, how you should behave, what dreams are acceptable, what emotions are forbidden, and what responsibilities you carry even when they werenever yours. These scripts shape us long before we’re old enough to question them. They tell us, “This is who you are,” even if that identity has nothing to do with your truth.

Today, I want to explore those invisible obligations—the unwritten rules, the generational expectations, the roles we inherit without consent—and more importantly, how to recognize when you’re living someone else’s story instead of your own.

Family scripts often begin subtly. Maybe you were thepeacekeeper, always smoothing tension and swallowing your own needs to maintain harmony. Maybe you were the achiever, praised only when you excelled, conditioned to believe that love must be earned through performance.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth

There’s a moment in everyone’s life when they realize that the loudest enemy they will ever face doesn’t live outside of them—it lives in their own mind. It whispers doubts, amplifies fears, distorts reality, and makes you question your worth, your abilities, and your place in the world. It shows up as negative thinking, ongoing self-doubt, and what we’ve come to know as imposter syndrome. But here’s the truth most people never hear:just because the mind speaks doesn’t mean it speaks the truth.

Today, I want to explore what happens when your mind lies to you—why it lies, how those lies take root, and how you can reclaim your power from the inner critic that has held you hostage for far too long.

Negative thinking doesn’t begin in adulthood.It begins in the small, unnoticed moments where you were criticized instead of encouraged, dismissed instead of validated, compared instead of seen. It beginsin classrooms, in family dynamics, in early relationships, where your mistakes were magnified and your strengths were overlooked. Over time, those messages become internalized. They stop sounding like other people’s voices and start sounding like your own.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness,courage, and truth

There is a quiet, often misunderstood truth about freedom: it doesn’t come from having no limits, no expectations, or no obstacles. Real freedom comes from clarity. And nothing brings more clarity into your life than boundaries. Today, I want to talk about why boundaries are not about keeping people out but about keeping yourself intact—why they are the emotional architecture of your well-being, and why learning to set them is notonly an act of self-respect, but an act of liberation.

You see, for most of us, boundaries have beenpainted as barriers, as selfishness, as something that creates distance or conflict. We hear the word “boundary” and think of confrontation, awkward conversations, or hurting someone’s feelings. But boundaries are not aboutpushing people away; they are about inviting them into a healthier relationship with you. They’re about making sure that your time, your energy, your emotional space, and your values are honored—not just by others, but by you.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth &Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with askingthe questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth

There’s a moment in almost every healing journey when you look back at the relationships you’ve chosen—romantic partners, friendships, even professional dynamics—and you ask yourself, “Why did I stay? Why did I choose someone who hurt me? Why did I feel so connected to something that was destroying me?” And for many people, the answer lies in something most of us don’t recognize until long after the damage is done: thetrauma bond.

A trauma bond is one of the most powerful anddeceptive emotional attachments a human being can experience. It doesn’t feel toxic in the beginning. In fact, it often feels like the most intense, addictive, magnetic love of your life. There’s chemistry, connection, passion…but there’s also fear, inconsistency, and pain. And because the highs are so high, we tolerate the lows. We become conditioned to chase the moments of affection, validation, and closeness, even if they’re followed by hurt,manipulation, or abandonment.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

Core wounds are the emotional imprints left from our earliest experiences—the moments when our needs weren’t met, when we felt unseen, unheard, unimportant, unsafe, or unworthy. These experiences areoften subtle, not dramatic. You don’t need a chaotic childhood to carry a corewound. Sometimes it’s a parent who was physically present but emotionally distant. Sometimes it’s a household where achievements were celebrated butfeelings weren’t allowed. Sometimes it’s growing up as the “responsible one,” the “quiet one,” the “strong one,” or the “easy one,” roles that might have kept the family functioning but left pieces of you unexpressed.

Core wounds are not memories—they’re beliefs.Beliefs about who you are and what you’re allowed to receive. They sound like: “I’m not good enough.” “I’m too much.” “My needs don’t matter.” “People alwaysleave.” “I have to earn love.” “If I want peace, I have to stay small.” These beliefs are so deeply woven into your identity that they feel like truth. But they’re not truth; they’re stories your younger self created to surviveemotionally overwhelming moments.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

In our previous Episode , we talked about facing truth and how it becomes the doorway to real transformation. Today, in Episode 2, we’re stepping deeper into thatjourney. Because once you finally see the truth—your truth—the next challenge becomes breaking free from the emotional patterns that have kept you stuck foryears. And if you’ve ever felt like no matter how hard you try, you keep hitting the same walls, this episode was created just for you.

Let’s start with a powerful image. Imagineyou’ve been living in a room with walls made of glass. You can see the world outside. You can see possibilities, relationships, dreams, experiences. But every time you take a step forward, you hit an invisible barrier. It startlesyou. You step back. You try again later. Same thing. You begin to think the problem is the world, or maybe the timing, or maybe other people, when inreality what you’re running into is your own unprocessed fear, your own anxiety, your own patterns that were formed long before you ever realized they wereshaping your life.

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Happy New year everyone and Welcome to Season 3 of the Truth & Freedom Podcast. where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag — and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

Today we’re starting with a topic that sits at the heart of every personal transformation, every breakthrough, and every moment of real growth: the truth. Not the filtered truth, the comfortable truth, or the version we tell ourselves to avoid discomfort—no. I’m talkingabout the kind of truth that liberates you. The truth that sets you free. And yet, ironically, it’s often the last thing we’re willing to face.

I want you to imagine holding a beach ball underwater. At first, it seems manageable. You push down, you apply pressure, you keep it submerged. But the longer you hold it there, the more exhausted you become. Your arms ache, your shoulders tighten, and the moment you loosen yourgrip even a little, that ball shoots right back up. This is what happens when we suppress truth—about our relationships, our mental health, our habits, ourpatterns, our fears. We spend so much energy keeping the truth underwater that we don’t realize how much it's draining us.

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As this is the last episode of Season 2, I want to end this last episode with a big bang, and lets call it FREEDOM. Freedom is not a location, a salary, or a circumstance. Freedom is a state of mind. It’s the internal space where you are no longer bound by the chains of fear, doubt, or limiting beliefs. And yet, most of us carryinvisible walls in our minds — assumptions, stories, and patterns that tell us what we can or cannot do, who we are, and who we are allowed to become. Thesebeliefs, often inherited or absorbed without question, shape every decision,every emotion, every reaction. The first step to true liberation is understanding that if your mind is not free, nothing else can be.

Beliefs are like software programs running in the background. Most of them were installed when you were young, when your brain was like clay, highly impressionable. Some of these programs were designed to protect you, to help you survive. Others, however, were designed by fear, misunderstanding, or external influence — and they continue to limit you long after their usefulnesshas expired. The freedom mindset is about recognizing those programs, analyzing them, and choosing which ones to keep and which ones to overwrite.

The first principle of the freedom mindset is awareness. You must notice the beliefs that run your life unconsciously. Listen to your inner dialogue. Whatstories do you tell yourself repeatedly? “I’m not capable.” “I don’t deserve success.” “I can’t speak up.” These statements are not truths — they are programs, scripts that you’ve internalized. And the moment you become aware of them, you begin to take the first step toward liberation. Awareness is not passive observation; it is the recognition that these beliefs are optional, notabsolute.

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