You're listening to episode 82 of the Baggage Reclaim sessions.

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

where I help people to increase their emotional availability so that they can move on from the past,

feel confident and happy within, and show up for the relationships and opportunities that reflect their best selves. Well, hello there.

Yes, I am back.

Not just back for this week, but actually back, as in for weekly episodes. You could call this really the beginning of season 3.

You might go well why season 3? Obviously you might be wondering that if you're a regular listener and that's because having taken this break over the last I think it's nine

ten weeks and then you know haven't taken a break last spring so in 2016 as well I've really had

those two gaps in there and I think that this period that I have been through you

know having lost my father, having taken time and space really to grieve, to I guess

get grounded and to really sort of get a sense of what I want to do next, that this really is a, I guess a new chapter in my life that I am excited about.

You know, yeah, it's been difficult in parts over the last while and I'm sure it will be difficult in

parts going forward but I feel very very restored by my experience and this sense of renewal and you know a renewed sense of purpose.

And so this episode is really I guess my manifesto for season three and beyond.

It is a preview of what is to come and I think it's also really a

reminder about what the reason is behind what I do what we're all doing in terms of our desire to be more emotionally available to be more connected

to ourselves, to be more connected to others, to enjoy more loving relationships and experiences.

Because realistically, yeah, there's a lot of fear out there.

We live in a time where if we chose to look at things a certain way we could go man these are dark times

but actually there is so much love as humans I think we struggle with ourselves. None of us are born adults. None of us are

born parents. None of us are born partners. We rock up into adulthood and we're just, I guess, thrown out there and expected to suddenly have it all figured out.

And sometimes it's life, you know, society that's expecting us to have it all figured out, but a lot of the time it is us.

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