Episode 72: Not wanting to deal: My story of running away and hiding

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Preface: I got this email awhile back from an ass kicker: “The first podcast I heard from you, you seemed like a perky, outgoing blonde – and these are all great things, but I must admit, when looking at you, we might think “oh, she’s never been through anything. Yeah, she has great things to say, but does she know what this is like?” ….and then upon listening further, I learned your earlier life actually very much mirrors my own. It was not only comforting but also a lesson learned about first impressions.” -YKAL blog reader ************************* I’ve been sitting on this blog post/podcast episode for months now, unpublished. It’s a huge part of my story, what went on in my 20′s emotionally that led me to my big breakdown/breakthrough in 2006. I’ve hesitated to take the leap and publish it because it’s long, it’s probably the most imperfect piece of writing I’ve ever written, but mostly because every time I take a giant leap into vulnerability I still hear the voice of “OMG what will people think of you?” But, the truth is (and I know this from experience…and science) is that we all have a painful story. And the more we abandon it and keep it locked up the more painful it is and it helps no one. And really, that’s just shitty. What I know for sure is that we can’t bury our stories alive and expect them to die. They don’t. Trust me, I’ve tried. I feel lucky to get to share my stories here. Sometimes scared, but still lucky. Thank you for allowing me to do so. ********************* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen.
0:36.1	A no BS guide to self-help and bad assery. Because ladies,
0:40.9	let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass. And here's your host, the girl who serves it
0:48.7	up straight with a side of crazy. Andrea Owen.
0:57.6	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast episode number 72.
1:02.7	All links and resources you hear in this podcast can be found by going to Your KickassLife.com forward slash 72.
1:06.9	Hey, AskKakers.
1:08.5	Welcome to another special edition of the Your Kickass Life podcast. And I've been sitting here just avoiding hitting record, palm sweating, feeling like I'm going to throw up. And this is, I feel like, wasn't it like in the 80s in those shows that we used to love to watch
1:30.9	like family ties and growing pains where when they were going to talk about something like kind
1:38.1	of heavy heavy topic they were like on today's special edition of family ties you know it's like
1:44.1	adult content or something
1:45.0	like that like I feel like that's how I should preface this episode and this is an episode that I wanted
1:51.2	to write as a blog post and a podcast episode and if you don't know already if you're a subscriber
1:58.3	to my podcast anytime I do a solo podcast,
2:02.0	the whole, not all of them, I just started doing this maybe a couple months ago, but
2:05.6	they are written out pretty much in their entirety on my blog.
2:10.6	And so if you wanted to share it that way, if you wanted to go back and read it, you're
2:14.8	more than welcome to do that.
2:16.2	On my podcast, I tend to kind of like go off on extra tangents. So you have that advantage. And normally I have,
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