Annie’s personal revelations on her birthday week

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hello folks, for this episode I took myself into the rave shed and reflected on the big changes that have taken place in my life over the last year.

It’s my birthday week, as I’m a Cancer I am trying to extend it into a whole month. I love any excuse for a party so there will be one of those happening for sure, but I also love, more and more, an opportunity to reflect and remember the events of my life, partly because my memory is so shite that if I don’t make the effort to remember, things disappear, but also because by understanding how I’ve evolved (or not) in the past, it gives me clarity on looking forwards. Reflection helps me to understand what I want and what I don’t want and this always feels settling, in a way.

The episode holds quite the gamut of changes. I cover taking up old hobbies with surprising results, making new friends, internalised ageism, resolving body issues, loneliness, perimenopause, hopefulness and loads more. I hope you enjoy it.

Also I’d love to hear about any changes YOU went through in the last year. Have a think and let me know by sending a short voice note to [email protected]

Thanks, as always, for listening.

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0:15.2	helping people understand more about their own drinking habits and it's trying to
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0:25.0	So most people don't really understand how much they are drinking.
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0:32.9	underestimate the amount of alcohol they are actually consuming. To help with this
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0:48.6	tips as to how to moderate if you need to. I just did it. It took less than three minutes. It turns out I am low risk, but it did
0:56.6	give me lots of tips in terms of how to drink more sensibly even within that parameter. It's definitely worth doing just to check yourself and also I think to ask yourself if you are really answering those questions honestly, you know what I mean?
1:14.3	It just makes you have to confront a little bit the reality of how much you drink and I think by
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1:24.7	change if you need to and if you want to.
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1:37.0	Hello guys, it is Annie McManus here I'm sitting in my office at the end of the
1:46.2	garden on a Wednesday morning and this is my birthday month I'm gonna be 36
1:52.4	in 15 days. I'm going to be 36 in 15 days. No I'm not. I'm going to be
1:56.9	46 in 15 days. Conveniently got a decade wrong there. 46 in 15 days. That means that I am over halfway through my life and I
2:09.0	thought it would be a nice idea to have a whole episode of changes where I talk to you just straight about the changes
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