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

Well, hello there.

How are you doing?

It's been a weighty time recently.

I'm speaking for myself, but I have no judge that others can relate and I thought

you know what after last week's episode about gas lighting I'm gonna go in heavy again. And thank you so much to everybody who's reached out so far about that episode because part of what makes this work so important to me but it also is part of what lights me

up is that I like putting into words experiences, feelings,

for processes that people often think are in their imagination that nobody else is going through it.

And what is clear all the time is that actually when we open ourselves up to the possibility that, you know what, maybe we are not

responsible for somebody else's behavior, we open ourselves up to the discovery that we are not alone and that we do not deserve

mistreatment.

So over the past few days in particular, but it is not a first time, it's a regular occurrence,

I have felt heavy with what is taking place in the world right now.

Bad enough that we have had to go through a pandemic and a lockdown,

but the conversation around race has intensified and more and more people are speaking up and it is a it's a weighty time to be black and actually to be in a minority as well, but I've been particularly so to be black.

Now if you listen to this and you already go, oh no, do you know what? Maybe this is something that you could do with listening to. I am not judging you for, you know, feeling that way but if you feel exhausted by somebody even

referencing race then just imagine what it might be like to be black every single day of your life,

or routinely discriminated against, neglected and abused.

Now, what I want to talk about in this episode

is something that I first spoke about a couple of days back on an Instagram video which is about 15 minutes long and I use that video to articulate some of my thoughts and feelings around what is taking place

right now but more actually to share ideas about how we can be and do more, how we can take the sentiments that we

express online, the outrage that we feel and turn it into something beyond a moment into instead

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