I'm Natalie Liu, and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, where we break the patterns

that break our hearts, relationships and bodies. Since 2005, I've run one of the longest

running self-help blogs in the world, baggage reclaim.com. I'm a boundaries and relationship coach

and the author of five books, including Mr. Unavailable and the

fallback girl and the joy of saying no. I help you reclaim yourself from emotional baggage by

letting go of emotional unavailability, people pleasing and unhealthy relationships so you can live

in love with more love, care, trust and respect.

Hello, hello, hello.

How are you doing?

I am in the last couple of weeks of summer holidays.

Our eldest goes to university.

So I'm going to be moving her up there in two weeks, which suddenly after a whole year of,

I guess, emotionally readying myself for this, it's almost upon us.

And there was so much stuff to do over the next couple of weeks.

And then our youngest starts A-level college, so her last couple of years of her secondary education, which also

seems pretty wild to me. And we're moving into a new phase. I also actually pop home to Dublin

next week, so that's at the beginning of September 2025, in case you happen to be listening

in the future, as it is

30 years since I left school. And so we're having our 30th anniversary event in Dalky next weekend,

which is where I went to school. What else is there to tell you? Well, first of all, I can't

believe I didn't even lead with this. So this is episode 299, which means the next one is going to be 300. And coincidentally,

when that episode comes out, it is around baggage reclaims 20th birthday. Honestly, I didn't even

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