And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.

And the hope is that the things we talk about here

will be fuel for better conversations

and a personal awareness.

This is an interactive podcast.

Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,

text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.

Several years ago at a weekend retreat I was asked this question.

When in your life did you feel the most like yourself?

And it was one of those activities, one of those exercises

where you were supposed to just answer the first thing that came to mind.

You weren't supposed to give it a ton of deep thoughts or a lot of

journaling or anything. You were just supposed to say the first thing that popped into your mind. And at the time I was

really surprised by the first thing that popped into my mind because the answer was,

and this was just a few years ago, but the answer was a time in my life when I felt the most like myself was when I was in college.

And this really clear vivid memory of myself in college came to me and I remembered exactly how I felt. I

remembered what I was wearing and who I was with and it was very visceral and it was a very good memory.

And it was a true answer to that question, a time in my life when I felt the most like myself.

Those years in college for me, there was a time frame where I was very comfortable

in my body, in my spirit, in my brain power, and in my future and it surprised me though that this is what

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