You're listening to episode 46 of the baggage reclaim sessions.

I'm your host Natalie Lou, offer of baggage reclaim.com,

where I help people to offload the shady relationships

and emotional baggage that block healthy self-esteem and loving relationships.

This week I talk about being open to making new friends and how to recognize if a partner is emotionally available.

This week my girls have gone back to school.

They've also started at a new school as well,

and that means that new routines, new structure, and also making new friends.

And I was thinking about all the changes that they're going through and I realized, oh my gosh, like I'm also going through a change as well.

Because now when I go up to drop the kids off at school

or to pick them up I don't really know anybody up there. There's actually one parent I know

but we don't really sort of know each other well most the time I am basically on my own

So what I want to talk about in this first part of the show is about being open to making new acquaintances and friends

I'll hold my hands up and say,

I don't find the whole like making new acquaintances

and friends that easy.

I'm not saying that it's supposed to be easy,

but I think some people are like really sort of good connectors and I know some people in the situations where they don't know anybody.

They were like going around, hi, I'm this and that and what's your name they'll go around

introducing people to others that is so not me and I could have decided to think about trying to become a different person and I

realize I'm not about to become that person who sort of goes around introducing

everybody to everybody and it's like the life and soul and you know you know sort of

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