You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment,

our last episode for 2023.

As at the time of recording, it is the 31st of December, here in Australia at least,

and I am wanting to talk to you today about courage and give you a little bit of a pep talk

for 2024. I always find this time of year to be fertile ground for self-reflection, for taking stock,

and for setting intentions for the year ahead, not so much in a cheesy resolution way of

telling yourself that you're going to go to the gym every day, even though you know you aren't,

or anything in that vein. But for deeper reflection, for getting really honest with ourselves

around what's working and what isn't,

where we are still hiding or withholding or letting fear drive us in our lives.

And for me, at least, courage and learning to practice courage and to embrace challenge

and the unknown, all of that has been hugely formative in my own life and in getting me

to where I am today, which when I look at the life that I am

living, that I've created, that I continue to create both personally and professionally,

I am really overcome with profound gratitude, both for everything that I have, but also

towards myself, because I know that know, everything that I have, but also towards myself,

because I know that a lot of what I am surrounded by today is a direct result of hard

things that I turned towards rather than away from in years gone by. And so I wanted to share

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