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, BaggageRe claim.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?

Is it too late to say Happy New Year?

I'm back after a much-needed break.

Jesus, December was a lot, like in good ways, of course, but honestly, by 10 o'clock on Christmas Day, Emma and I were like, yeah, I think we should try to be away next Christmas.

Anyway, I'm back and raring to go. And in this episode, I want to talk about something that's been

on my mind for a while.

Like disrespect and knowing when, regardless of whatever I've told myself before about what's going on,

this thing that's happened signals that is time for me to get out of dodge.

Now, the reason I want to talk about this is because the phrase, this colloquialism,

Jump the Shark, keeps popping into my head.

And what Jump the Shark means is it's when a TV series or a film has an episode, a moment, where something so far-fetched,

so ridiculous, so at odds with what's come before occurs, that it essentially signals a declining

quality and the beginning of the end.

I first heard about jumping the shark when listening to Will Smith's autobiography.

And he was explaining that Jump the Shark came from Happy Days, where the Fons, he was water

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