Ep. 30: Listener Question Special #1
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In episode 30, Natalie dedicates the show to answering listener questions.
- Can I stand up to my disrespectful colleague? This listener was told to "shut up" by someone who she thought was a friend and they did it in front of everyone too.
- Should I send a 'keep me in mind for the future' letter to my ex? Her widower workaholic long-distance boyfriend has broken it off to date a woman closer to home and her therapist has suggested that due to the circumstances, that she should send him a letter telling him to get in touch if his situation changes.
- I can't get a job and I feel like a failure in comparison to my 'successful' siblings. This is one of those situations that really exemplifies the vicious cycle of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Living with her dysfunctional family who patronise and insult her plus going out with a 'successful' younger guy plus 'successful' siblings plus her friends having jobs is convincing her that she has every reason to think that she's a failure.
- Do I think too much? A comment that she's heard too often from past partners, this listener is starting to question the aspects of her that she prides herself on.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 30 of the baggage reclaim sessions. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the show where I'm only going to be answering |
| 0:08.8 | listener questions. Yes, you heard that right. My virtual mail bag is bulging after taking some time off. |
| 0:16.2 | So I wanted to focus on a selection of the questions in today's show. |
| 0:20.0 | And actually what I'm going to do is every few weeks or so I'm going to dedicate a show to answering some of the listener questions because I get so many fruit and of course I want to help as many people as possible. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's kick this off. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, let's kick off this advice show with the first question, |
| 0:37.0 | which comes from Becky who wants to know, |
| 0:40.0 | can I stand up to my disrespectful coworkers? |
| 0:43.3 | I generally like my coworkers and feel like I'm friendly with the majority of them. |
| 0:49.7 | Right now is our slower season, but it seems like some people are still finding ways to make a sudden friendliness |
| 0:57.2 | U-turn out of nowhere. |
| 0:59.0 | Only a select few of them do things like this, but a coworker I considered a friend recently |
| 1:04.8 | interrupted me to tell me to shut up and the office went silent. In these kind of |
| 1:10.4 | moments I feel so shocked and awkward about it that I get scared into whatever |
| 1:15.5 | command was barked at me. I've been putting on my headphones, listening to your show, |
| 1:20.4 | music and generally trying to avoid break times and run-ins with these coworkers. |
| 1:25.1 | In a way, I hope they notice so that they see that I'm not okay with that behavior, |
| 1:30.1 | yet at the same time I don't want to make things more awkward. |
| 1:34.0 | Being scolded at work always makes me feel terrible. |
| 1:38.0 | I honestly fear I won't be brave enough to stand up for myself very well |
| 1:42.0 | because of it being a work environment and also because I'm already in the wrong |
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