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?

I feel like I'm having my first normal week in quite a while.

It's been the summer holidays.

We were writing our girls for their big changes.

So one, we were moving to university. And then our younger one was getting ready to start A-level college, which is the last two years of secondary

school here in England. And in between all of that, I popped home to Ireland. And then after

moving, our daughter up north for university, I then had two weddings in one week. One of those was in

Tuscany and myself and I'm, oh my gosh, the mosquitoes had an absolute field day with us.

I've had a great time, but it is lovely to be back to normal and back in the hard seat.

And you know what? I'm gradually feeling like I have the headspace to focus on

work and projects. 2025 has been a roller coaster of a year and I want this stretch of the year to

feel more settled and grounded. Before we dive into today's episode, as mentioned in the previous one,

so in episode 300, I'd like to do a

Q&A episode this autumn where I answer reader questions. If you've got a burning question that you'd

love a bit of my advice on, or there's something you've always wanted to ask me about in terms of my

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