Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn show. I am your host, well you know who I am by now, I'm

Emma Gunn Awardner, and I thought we'd have a little chat about self-care in this

mini-show because self-care is a good habit to get into but what does it

really mean and the reason why this is at the forefront of my mind at the moment is

because I've been out a lot recently with friends and I've just we've just had the

sort of catch-ups and the sort of deep and meaningfuls that end up making you a

feel really really good and also give you a lot to think about and we just all seem to be at that place where we feel that feeling centered, feeling happy in

adverted commas and by inverted commas I mean based on whatever that means to or

for you and how a sense of calm or just feeling like you're doing okay can come from

staying in your lane not worrying about what anyone else is doing or thinking and

appreciating the fact that you are who you are and that's okay.

And it is something that all of us collectively agreed. it's taken us years to get towards a place of understanding that,

not even putting it into practice, but just understanding that that actually is where

that feeling of steadiness, the feeling tethered can come from because when you're

younger maybe you worry a little bit too much about what people think of you or other things and so you haven't really got there yet.

I'm sure there are younger people who have, but just in the experience of my collective group of friends

and I we realize that we are having conversations

and we are understanding ourselves in a way that we couldn't have before and that

obviously is what growing and learning is all about and developing as a human being

in a person and I guess this is something we've talked about you and I, you

my most excellent listeners and I, I think this is something we've talked about a lot in many

different forms with various guests on the podcast but it can sometimes be hard to put into practice.

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