This is not a time for me to be hard on myself.

This is not a time for me to do a ton of evaluation about what I'm not doing well or where I'm not living up.

There are times for that.

I'm a big believer. It's why I've grown. It's why you're so successful.

This is not that time. Right now, I need to give myself all the love, all the care, all the belief, all the faith, all the confidence.

I possibly can't. And so do all of you.

Hi there, lovely listeners of the Love Life podcast.

I am Stephen Hussie, of course, your host.

And I have arrived back in England to a rather stranger country than I left.

I, I've of course been in Tokyo living fairly normally for the past few weeks, albeit with more face mask wearing and handwashing.

But arriving back in England was a surreal experience.

I mean, Heathrow Airport has been a ghost town.

We are now on full lockdown in the UK.

And obviously the crisis is very bad here in Europe at the moment with accelerating COVID-19, the infection rate growing.

And obviously there's a lot of uncertainty and worry about the need to contain things.

So we are in an unusual moment and everything is okay with me and my family.

I am self-isolating in an apartment on my own at the moment, having just returned from Asia.

And you know, day to day, it's unusual, but all is fine.

And I feel very grateful to be in a situation where I do have a creative outlet.

I'm able to do these podcasts.

I'm able to write.

And obviously the work, Matt and I do is primarily online.

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