I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello!

Happy New Year.

Welcome to the very first episode of 2020 and the first episode of a new decade.

It is good to be back after a few weeks break.

I was very tired in a run-up to Christmas. I'm still a little bit

tired but I'm gradually rebooting. The kids are back at school and there's a level of

normality starting to kick in. I've even started running again because I actually

signed up to do a 10K a few months ago and the new year dawned on me and I suddenly realized this 10k is about five six weeks away.

I really need to get my arse in gear.

So I've actually run three times since the start of the year

and I'm aiming to run like a couple of times a week.

I'm not going to overdo it. I'm not trying to get you know some big old time or

anything like that. It's just actually for fun but also just to gradually sort of get my energy levels up, you know, my fitness as well.

Now, before I get into today's episode, a quick heads up about a few things. I mentioned several episodes back that I was planning

to do an event on January 25th. I recognize my energy levels and the event is still happening but it's going to be on Saturday the 15th of February.

The event is Finding You. It's a workshop about how to love yourself and I'm doing it with my friend

Carly Ann who is a coach who works primarily with women and helps them with managing stress and also growing their

self-esteem. So she does that as part of her day job but also as part of her own private practice as well. So we're really

really looking forward to that because a lot of people hear the words like

self-love, self-care, they actually have no idea what they mean or they have a bit of a sense of it but it's like yes but how do I do it?

Well that's what the workshop is all about.

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