And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you

can be. I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 179. It's titled, Eagles, Chickens and Rescue Dogs.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello, you beauties. You're right? Before I start, I want to say a huge thank you to some new patrons that have joined my Patreon community.

If you miss last month's episode, you might not know that I've started up a fund for underprivileged folk to be able to get private therapy without having to wait so long for it on the NHS.

And so I had a lovely influx of new patrons in February.

So a big hello.

And thank you to Leslie, Helen, Malcolm, Paulette, Kate, Tam, David, Andrew, Paul, Tanya, Anna, Bill, Liz, Nicola, Kate, John, Jordan and Andrea.

Had loads! It's been amazing. It's really, really good to see so many people come on board and help me out with all of this fundraising lark.

It's brilliant. You're helping to make someone's life so much better. You're making a difference. You genuinely are. And I've also

been able to set up a direct debit to helping the National Deaf Children's Society as well.

They've got a lot of campaigns running and are really good support for children, for their

parents, for teachers, anyone that needs help. And I can't thank you enough for helping me support them,

even though I do keep trying, don't I? Thank you. Anyway, enough with the gushing. And on with the show.

Now, I'm going to start today's episode with a little story. It's a story about the eagle that didn't know that it was an eagle, and it goes like this.

One day, a farmer found an eagle's egg under a tree, and not knowing if the little eaglet inside

was still alive, he took it to his farmyard and put it in a nest of a simple barnyard hen.

The tiny eaglet was alive, and soon he hatched alongside a brood of chicks,

and he grew up with them all.

And as he grew, he did everything that a chicken would do,

for this eagle was not aware that he wasn't actually a chicken.

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