360. Best of Jessica Fostekew

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Guilty Feminist episode 360: Best of Jessica Fostekew

Presented by Deborah Frances-White with special guest Jessica Fostekew

The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon.

More about Deborah Frances-White

https://deborahfrances-white.com
https://twitter.com/DeborahFW
https://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-book

More about Jessica Fostekew

https://twitter.com/jessicafostekew
http://jessicafostekew.com

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0:00.0	This is a paid advertisement from Better Help.
0:03.0	Hello, Guilty Feminist, this is Deborah.
0:05.0	I am recording from Australia where my tour is coming to an end, very sadly.
0:10.0	It seems implausible to me that this is the end of May.
0:14.0	It feels like the year just began.
0:16.9	Sometimes the goals I make in January,
0:19.9	I think, yeah, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that.
0:21.5	And then life takes over. And then I think, I'm going to do that, and then life takes over.
0:23.5	And then I think, oh, right, well, I'll do it for the second half of the year,
0:26.4	and then it's end of year, and then I think, well,
0:28.8	that's a new use resolution.
0:30.7	I just don't stop enough to take in what my goals are and how I would meet them.
0:36.0	I have found therapy very helpful, but I use online therapy because I end up cancelling if I have to do public transport, but I will find time to turn on the Zoom.
0:50.0	So I really recommend it because having somebody set goals with you and be accountable with you and figure out what the blocks are.
1:00.0	I always remember Felicity Ward's therapist saying avoidance is the maintenance of any problem.
1:05.1	And I feel like I avoid and therefore maintain the things in my life that I don't like this year that I didn't like last year that I've never liked
1:11.9	are things I've maintained by avoiding.
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