You're listening to episode 69 of the Baggage Reclaim sessions.

I'm your host Natalie Lou, author 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 the factors that affect our bounce back rate and what being interdependent means.

Hello there, before I get on with the show, I wanted to take a few moments to talk about love, care, trust and respect.

My new book that I have just launched and that is becoming available in print on Monday the 26th of December.

That's 2016 if you're listening to this show in the future.

And it's already available on Kindle

and also an e-book format through the Sharp on Baggage

Reclaim.

Love Care, Trust, and Respect

is about the vital ingredients of loving relationships.

I think many of us know in theory that we need love, care, trust and respect in our relationships,

but we often settle for far less than that,

often because we don't really know what that looks and feels like in practice.

And that's often because we didn't necessarily have a healthy

template for relationships when we were grown up or because we don't actually feel

that great about ourselves and obviously if we don't feel that great about ourselves

we tend to choose relationships that reflect that and we might look for things to I guess fill us up that don't necessarily light us up in our relationships because they end up

taking us into an unhealthy place. And what can happen when we don't

understand what love, care, trust, and respect is and so we don't really seek it

and we don't embody it ourselves,

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