author's note. I said in part one that it was my friends who said don't try to

make this one perfect episode. Tell your story, say what your body needs to say.

After a year of mentally planning and doing different drafts of this

episode, this was only on Thursday when the first part had to be recorded the

following Wednesday. This is my third Tuesday in a row recording, which means

after I don't have time to sit with it, overanalyze, re-record before it goes

live on Wednesday. And today I'm feeling itchy about that. Because this

episode I just recorded that you're about to hear is raw. It's my girlfriend therapy

session. It's what I only talked to my close friends. There is a lot of cursing

and a lot of raised voices. And we don't always like that in women. We like

vulnerable authenticity. We say we want real, but we want it to be elegant and

refined, already smoothed out and feeling a little safer. But when we don't

allow our righteous anger, we trap it. We won't let it out so we keep it inside

of us, which means we keep living with it. So friend, may today be an example of

how to purge your pain. In the first part I said I was sad and scared. I let

you empathize with me. In the second part, I made calm, logical, well-laid

out points. I earned your trust that I acted in this process as the organized,

respectable, professional that I absolutely did. And on that foundation, in this

third part, I let you into the hospital room, the bedroom, the car, the place

where you let loose and scream and shake your fists at the heavens. And then

you smooth your skirt and smooth down your hair and enter back into the world

with your body feeling lighter because it's told and felt your truth. So today,

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