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The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Ep. 308: How to Be Selfish: Reclaiming the Right to Self with Suzy Reading

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Natalie Lue

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Natalie talks with psychologist Suzy Reading about her book "How to Be Selfish" and reclaiming the right to self-care and self-advocacy. They explore childhood conditioning, toxic resilience messaging, why resentment signals guilt and obligation, and how depletion serves no one while replenishment serves everyone.

**Note: The sound is slightly strange on Natalie's voice, but it's still a great episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.3

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Car gurus.com.com. Cagurus. Search, buy, sell, sorted.

0:27.3

I'm Natalie Lou. And you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, where we break the patterns

0:33.3

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

0:39.3

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

0:45.0

and the author of five books, including Mr. Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and the Joy of

0:50.4

Saying No. I help you reclaim yourself from emotional baggage by letting go of emotional

0:56.4

and availability, people pleasing and unhealthy relationships so you can live in love with more love,

1:02.7

care, trust and respect. Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? Jesus is hard to believe it's the end of March. If you're

1:13.1

listening to this episode on the day it comes out, tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of my dad's death.

1:19.6

Last year, I spent the anniversary back home in Dublin and Ireland. It was a much-needed change of

1:25.4

scenery after the rollercoaster of the cancer diagnosis,

1:28.7

and I just really needed to feel the Irish air on me and be with my homies, some I've known since I was 10.

1:34.3

I remember feeling a little conflicted about the trip, because aside from wondering about

1:38.6

making the effort to be, for instance, with my siblings, we'd finally told our girls about the

1:43.3

diagnosis a few days before.

1:45.7

It was easy to go to a place of worrying about everyone else and thinking I needed to be around.

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