Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenager Therapy. I'm Gaya. I'm Kayla. I'm Thomas.

Welcome back to the podcast. It looks a little bit differently. Yeah. It looks a little different.

I mean, yeah. It is not a big change. This isn't like a new set. We're not like, don't

get it. Don't freak out. Don't freak. Stay calm. It's just new year, new us.

We're literally just because it's a could not shoot from Thomas' bedroom because it was a little

inconvenient because it's been hectic. It's been hectic a couple of weeks with school

starting, new schedules, new routine. I feel like that's a lot emotionally. It's hard to deal

with, but yeah, I don't know more than anything. We just kind of have to do it. Of course, so once

we settle into it, we'll be back in Thomas' room. I'll schedule it every week. This week's

episode is about how to be alone. How to learn how to be alone. A little bit. It's a little

bit of everything, I suppose, trusting yourself to be alone, self-trust, loneliness versus being

alone. All of those topics. I feel like this has been really relevant in my life recently

that I've really been noticing these past two weeks because I've been going through a lot

of difficult emotions in the past three months or so. It's been a lot of difficult emotions.

Mostly due to a couple different situations, I'll kind of combine that ones. If we would

have had this conversation like five months ago, mid-year, last year, I think I would have

given a different answer to the question of, do you trust yourself to be alone? I think

I probably would have said no. I probably would have talked about how scared I was to be

alone, how anxious it made me, how worried I was that if I lose people close to me in

my life or if I'm suddenly alone and lonely that I would fall apart and I would just lose

myself, lose my routines, my habits and just not be able to be the best version of myself.

But now five months later, I feel like I've gone through a lot of difficult emotions and

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