29. CHOOSING Your Family - How & Why It Might Be The Most Important Thing You Do.

Family is defined as 'a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit'. But, in this deeply personal episode, Jimi and Libby delve into what they believe the real meaning of family is and why it doesn’t always have to include people you share DNA with.

Studies show that as we age, friendships are more important than family for our happiness and our physical health.

When we are very young we rely heavily on the family that we were gifted by circumstance and then once we hit adulthood we can choose our family, once we have the freedom and the resources to do so.

Speaking from her heart, Libby lifts part of the lid on the story of her childhood growing up in a tiny cult and explains how she made the extremely difficult, life-changing and ultimately best decision of her life to estrange herself from her biological family, which led to her needing to create a new one.