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Radio Headspace

How to Let Go of Everyone Else’s Expectations

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

So many of our choices are shaped by “shoulds” — expectations handed down from family, society, or social media. In this episode, Dora explores how mindfulness helps you notice whose standards you’re living by and how to release the ones that don’t serve you, so you can live life on your own terms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey friends, it's Dora here. Let's be real. Bedtime can feel like a constant battle.

0:09.5

The tantrums, the stalling, the screen fatigue, it's a lot. That's why we created Wiggle to Wind Down,

0:15.7

a brand new kid's sleep podcast from Headspace and Cocoa Mellon.

0:26.8

Each episode helps your little one move, breathe, and settle into a soothing bedtime story so they can relax and you can finally exhale.

0:31.8

Search for Wiggle to Wind Down wherever you get your podcast and make bedtime a little easier

0:37.4

for everyone.

0:38.3

Headspace Studio.

0:53.3

Welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Dora, and I'm glad you're here.

0:57.0

Okay, so picture this. I'm standing in the grocery store last Tuesday, holding a pack of frozen plant-based chicken nuggets, like its evidence in a crime scene.

1:09.0

My internal dialogue sounded something like this.

1:13.6

I should make a real dinner.

1:15.6

I should a meal prep like that one influencer on Instagram.

1:18.6

Maybe I should buy organic vegetables.

1:21.6

I should care more about nutrition.

1:24.6

I should be a better adult.

1:26.6

And I'm just standing there with chicken nuggets

1:29.8

having a full-on existential crisis in Isle 7. That's when I started laughing to myself. Well,

1:37.0

kind of out loud too, because I realized I had just shoulded myself into a pretzel of shame

1:43.4

over chicken nuggets. A woman nearby looked at me like I had lost shoulded myself into a pretzel of shame over chicken nuggets.

1:45.0

A woman nearby looked at me like I had lost it.

1:48.0

And honestly, maybe I had, but in the best way possible.

1:55.0

Here's what I discovered.

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