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

Hello, hello.

How are you doing?

It is half term here in England, which has meant that my two girls have been off all week,

and my eldest who was in a school performance of Legally Blonde the musical last week

has actually not been well for most of the week. I think it's a mixture of tiredness

and singing her heart out every day but yeah she's been feeling I've been under the

weather so other than a day spent down by the sea in a place called Rotindine

which is not too far from Brighton on the south coast, it's actually been very chill and we've been indoors a lot.

And this has been a good thing because over the years I noticed that whenever there was this time off with the kids

that it would often get filled up with lots and lots of things to do and over time

I realized that didn't actually work for me or for them very well.

The sort of the sense of feeling like, oh, there's this time off.

I must entertain, I must do all of these things.

So over time I've learned to slow things down to really listen to ourselves so that I can respond to that so

that we can respond to that.

And that actually taps into some of what I'm going to be talking about today, which is this whole, this feeling

of not knowing what we want. Before I get into that a quick reminder I am running a couple of workshops they are my

break the cycle workshops which are for people who are looking to break a relationship

pattern to figure out what is going on behind the scenes that's stopping them from

being doing and having the things that they want. So I am running one on March 21st in my studio space, in my back garden.

That is, that's only got one space left.

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