You're listening to episode 79 of the baggage reclaim sessions.

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

where I help people to become more emotionally available so that

they can move on from the past, feel confident and happy within, and enjoy

healthier relationships. This week I talk about short but loaded texts and why we have to stop being too bloody nice for our own good.

Well, hello there. own good.

to be back.

I wasn't supposed to have a break last week, but unfortunately, when I went to do the show, my brother's PC went on the blink, which meant that he was not able to edit the show because it had everything that was needed for it on there.

So anyway, I'm back. but before I actually go on with the show I actually

wanted to take a few moments to mention that in my efforts to be more organized and you know

like proper business woman like I decided to look up how the

podcast is doing and I was in for a shock because I discovered that it has over 20,000

downloads on iTunes every month, as well as an average, so on top of that 20,000

downloads, another 35,000 listens every month on SoundCloud. And this is apparently very good. Now I'm not someone who

gets hung up on numbers clearly because I hadn't looked up these numbers for

an extremely long time, But there is a reason why I'm

mentioning all of this, despite the fact that there are so many listens, at the time of

recording the show there were around 15 reviews on iTunes so I'm figuring that based on the fact that each

week I ask people to rate and review the show at the end of the episode that maybe people don't

pick up on that bit because it's like, you know, it's in the

equivalent of the closing credits.

So I am doing the whole stepping out of my comfort zone and being seen and asking for help.

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