Courtney's Secret Garden

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Feelings & Co.

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack! - Courtney Maum is having a midlife crisis. Parenting is taking so much of her time. Her writing career is going well, but that means she’s overwhelmed by deadlines and book deals. Her marriage is in a rough patch, and when she starts asking herself “should I have an affair?” and “should I become an alcoholic?” she recognizes she needs a change in her life. She dreams of finding an escape that brings her back to her childhood passion of being outside for hours, lost in her thoughts. In this episode, we follow Courtney as she tries to find her Secret Garden. Courtney is an author, her most recent book The Year of the Horses is a memoir about rediscovering herself through her love of horses. Nora recommends her fiction: I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch. __ You can read the episode transcript here. Listener support makes our independent podcast possible. Our Substack is a great way to connect with us and other listeners (and get more Terrible in your inbox). Join the club here. — Shop our sponsors: Rothys: Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/TERRIBLE. Osea: Head to oseamalibu.com and use code TTFA for 10% off. Headspace: Try Headspace FREE for 30 days by going to headspace.com/Nora30Day. Boll and Branch: Get 15% off your first order when you use promo code TTFA at bollandbranch.com. LMNT: Visit DrinkLMNT.com/TERRIBLE to get a free sample pack with any purchase. Foria: Get 20% off your first order by visiting foriawellness.com/TERRIBLE, or use code TERRIBLE at checkout. You can find our full sponsor list here. — Find TTFA on social: TTFA on Instagram | TTFA on Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	One of my favorite stories growing up was the Secret Garden. It's a book by
0:44.9	Francis Hodgson Bernat and I was given an illustrated hard cover copy in
0:50.6	about second grade which I have to this day. It was adapted very well into a
0:57.4	movie in 1993 that was also an instant favorite. And if you're not familiar
1:03.5	with this tale, it follows a little rich girl named Mary who is rude and
1:10.0	entitled and generally unpleasant to be around probably because she has been
1:15.5	emotionally neglected by her very wealthy parents who then of course suddenly
1:20.1	die of cholera. Mary then finds herself placed with a wealthy, distant relative
1:26.6	who is of course also disinterested in taking care of the child that he has
1:32.5	been charged with taking care of. You're not going to get the entire plot
1:37.1	synopsis here but Mary learns that her uncle's dead wife had a walled garden
1:42.9	that she loved and that after his wife's death this uncle locked the garden
1:48.3	away because he couldn't bear to even see it. Such was his grief. So what does
1:54.9	Mary do? She defies that uncle. She goes looking for the garden. She finds it.
2:00.5	She unlocks it and she loves it. This is a little excerpt. The Secret Garden was
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