Hey everyone, it's Eve here. I hope you had a lovely weekend.

So this week is a special one for me because I've reached a radio headspace milestone

100 episodes. I honestly can't believe it. And if I'm being honest, when I was initially

asked to work on the show, it made me a little nervous. It's a lot of work and I've never

done anything like it. And I didn't know how people would react, which was especially

anxiety inducing. I think it's very natural to want people to enjoy what you make and

those thoughts can really take over if you let them. But the interesting thing was that

the more I focused on being with each episode, the less I got caught up in thinking about

what would happen. Because whatever happened once the episode was out was outside of my

control. But what I could control was my creative process. I could choose where I wrote. The

experiences I wanted to share. And to write about things that really moved me. And I am

not saying that it was always fun because it was really hard. But believe me when I say

it, I grew a lot as a person when writing this show. So if you're thinking about starting

a project but are afraid of either the quality of the outcome or how it's received, I say

just pull that energy into the actual process of creation. And whatever happens happens.

But nobody can take that enjoyment and the love of the process away from you. Anyway, with

that being said, this week I'm going to play five episodes that I really enjoyed writing

and talk a little bit about how they came together. So today, the first episode I'm going

to discuss is called Climate Anxiety. And this episode actually came out of a conversation

I had with a headspace listener who was quite young and she was expressing a lot of anxiety

around the climate. And I said to her, yes, me too. I think with this episode, I was

also thinking about the sorts of problems that seem so vast and outside of our control.

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