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, Baggaggagreglaim.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?

This is the 300th episode of the baggage reclaim sessions.

Originally, I expected this episode to land, I think, early summer,

but taking time out for my health and then, of course, the girls, you know, my teenagers,

being off during the summer, meant that it's landed here. And it was only a few weeks back that I clocked that the 300 episode would

release on baggage reclaims 20th birthday. Yeah, it's 20 years, a whole two decades since I started baggage baggage reclaim as a blog to be an antidote

to the bland, homogenous, restrictive, and outdated advice about relationships dating and

self-esteem that was particularly peddled to women, but ultimately affecting all of us.

20 years.

I also didn't plan for this episode to be coming out on our final day of having our eldest daughter at home.

Tomorrow we move our 18-year-old to Manchester in the north of

England to go to university and she will be there for at least four years. Although, honestly,

so many people have told me that thanks to the way that the world is these days, including the

cost of rent, that it's likely that

our daughters will be moving in and out of home over the next 10 to 15 years, depending on

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