5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Are You 'Good' At Being Alone?
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
I was recording an episode yesterday with a friend who happens to be a well-known yoga instructor. She said something during our session that stuck with me. “You, out of almost anyone I know, are the best at being alone.” She expanded a little more on the subject. As she did, I felt tears well up behind my eyeballs. Tears that I fought back as I took a deep breath and continued on with our discussion. Once she was done with her thought, I thanked her for the compliment. Then I told her my truth (which I'm sharing with you in today's 5-MINUTE FRIDAY).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Herdlers, Emily a body here, coming to you with another installment of 5 Minute |
| 0:22.4 | Friday. |
| 0:23.4 | Can I tell you right off the bat here? |
| 0:27.0 | Yesterday was a dynamite day in New York City, like 10 or 10 total gem, you know, the |
| 0:36.1 | night before I went to bed thinking to myself that I was going to go to the gym and take |
| 0:40.4 | a spin class on like via my iPad on one of the spin bikes and I woke up and the sun was |
| 0:47.5 | already coming up and it was like the Goldilocks 52 degree temperature outside and I was |
| 0:54.6 | like, you know what, I'm going to take my bike out for a little ride and so 80 minutes |
| 0:59.6 | of just me and the sun and the birds and oh my goodness, if you live in New York right |
| 1:06.0 | now, the trees are blooming just absolute perfection. |
| 1:10.4 | Anyway, yesterday was also really special because it was the first time since last March |
| 1:17.9 | that I recorded in person with someone coming down the pipe for the pod. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm going to keep them their identity under wraps for a little bit longer, but this |
| 1:30.1 | person will be the first guest that I have had come on the show for a longer episode |
| 1:39.4 | twice. |
| 1:40.6 | So I'm really excited about that. |
| 1:41.6 | The conversation was really impactful and really special. |
| 1:45.5 | And so for this episode of 5 Minute Friday, which if you're new to the show, I typically |
| 1:49.6 | share a story, offer up a thought prompt to take you into the weekend or whenever you're |
| 1:53.8 | listening to this, to reflect on and then give you some of my highlights of the week, |
| 1:59.2 | my content picks, so to speak. |
| 2:01.4 | So this conversation that I was having yesterday during the recording, we were chatting about |
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