How to Be Content in Your Own Company

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

With a maybe lockdown looming, and the promise that we’re all going to have to be spending a lot more time on our own this winter, Stevie and Tessa explore how to enjoy your own company, the difference between being lonely and being alone, and how to not just survive, but thrive on your own.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to nobody panic. We are a podcast. We are here to help you through
0:17.3	life's business. I'm Stevie. I'm Tessa. Are we equipped for this? No. Are we here? Yes.
0:27.0	To honest, that's half the battle.
0:29.0	Yeah, we're doctors and they're just like, I'm here.
0:32.8	Be like, yeah.
0:33.8	That's good enough, isn't it?
0:35.8	We've shown up, guys.
0:37.8	And you've shown up, look, we're all here together.
0:40.0	What more could you?
0:41.0	What more could you possibly ask for?
0:42.0	And this week, we are taking a suggestion from Nave.
0:45.0	Nave says, she's currently in the second year of uni and she lives alone in a studio.
0:49.0	Struggles with her mental health, but only now realizing how much I don't know myself and can be
0:54.8	alone, how to enjoy your own company? And I could not relate more. We did this episode as the
1:01.9	D- Brief Podcast a long time ago.
1:04.7	But that was a long time ago and it feels it should be updated for an MP.
1:08.9	For an MP and also for a good old, it looks like things are taking some steps back on how much we're
1:15.4	allowed out and allowed to see people and so it feels like learning to enjoy your
1:19.0	own company is going to be pretty important in the months ahead yes I mean it's going to be pretty important in the months ahead.
1:23.3	Yes, I mean it's going to be a chilly and lonely winter, you know?
1:27.3	Yes.
1:28.3	But it doesn't have to be.
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