5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Do You Have An Energy Leak?
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
I’ve been seeing the same therapist since October. On Wednesday of this week, we had our last session together. I just had an inkling that I was ready to move on to the next chapter. Toward the beginning of our chat, she said “I’d like for us to round out our final session by you telling me what you’ve learned about yourself in our time together.” A few things stood out, but mainly this: It becomes pretty clear what things, people, and relationships you’re giving most of your energy to when someone offers you 45 minutes to talk about you week after week. For a while, I was giving some of the wrong things too much of mine.
Your energy is your magic. In today's 5-MINUTE FRIDAY, I talk about this and more, as well as encourage you to do a personal audit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Hurdlers. What a week. Emily, coming back in to your feed with another installment of |
| 0:24.1 | five-minute Friday. I feel so many things this week. A lot's been going on. One of my best, |
| 0:31.1 | dearest friends left yesterday to move away from New York. And that was pretty tough. I also actually had my last |
| 0:41.7 | session with the therapist that I've been seeing since October. And that's where I am bringing |
| 0:48.0 | us in today's installment of Five Minute Friday. For anyone that is new listening to the show, first and foremost, welcome |
| 0:55.8 | to the community. You are now officially a hurdler. And so some background. Five minute Friday, |
| 1:03.0 | I share a story, something that I'm thinking about lately. I offer you a thought prompt to take you |
| 1:08.2 | into your weekend. And then I offer up some highlights of the week, things that I think are awesome, whether that is a person, a piece of content, |
| 1:14.8 | a podcast episode, something you should buy. You get the details. I also do want to say, |
| 1:22.5 | before we get started, this week's hurdle session raised $350 for the Loveland Foundation. I had a blast with you, |
| 1:32.7 | and I'm so amped about the direction that this is going and what we will be able to talk about |
| 1:38.6 | coming down the pipeline. upcoming next week, if you're interested in freelance writing, I've got you. |
| 1:45.9 | Intro to freelance writing is this coming Tuesday. So if you want to sign up for next week's |
| 1:51.2 | hurdle session, click on over to the link with the description to this episode. On that note, |
| 1:57.1 | everything you hear me chat about today, that'll all be linked in there as well. All right. So, |
| 2:03.3 | as I mentioned this week, I had my last session with my therapist. It was just one of those |
| 2:10.5 | things where I felt as though I knew that it was time to move on. And I felt that way for a little |
| 2:17.4 | while. I was super grateful for all of |
| 2:19.9 | our interactions and really grateful for the takeaways that I gained during this time and this |
| 2:25.8 | experience. And I just, I knew that it was time to close this chapter. And so on Wednesday, |
| 2:33.9 | when we had our call, we went through all of those niceties |
| 2:36.0 | that you go through with someone when you're talking to them on Zoom or the phone, |
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