Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday morning.

I don't know about you, I feel like sometimes there is an idea that if we're in any way

looking after the mind, training the mind in some way, there's an expectation maybe it's

some others maybe we put it on ourselves that we shouldn't engage in any kind of negative

thinking, negative words and negative actions and of course ideally it would be nice if

we were able to simply step away from those but we're all human beings and sometimes

these things happen you know and so someone said to me do you ever feel like you're

able to be angry or to get sad or this kind of thing and look I think there have been

times where it's been a little tricky and I remember there was a time back in the day

when I think every five days in the app a little video would pop up and it would be me

kind of having a chat with you if you used it back then you might remember so it meant

that when I was out and about kind of I met lots of people who did headspace and who would

come and say hello and that kind of thing and I can remember certainly in the early years

of having our first born you know that time if you've had kids that you know you're not sleeping

much you know everyone's a little bit tired a little bit cranky and you're just not necessarily

feeling at your best and therefore the idea the ability to step back from thoughts becomes a bit

more challenging and I remember being I've ever been in the supermarket one day and actually my

son was a little bit older at this time I think he was probably sort of two and a half maybe even

three years old by that stage but still you know required a lot of attention and I remember being

in the supermarket we were walking down the aisle when he was trying to sort of pick things off

the shelf and do all these kinds of things and I was constantly asking him not to at the same time

I was sort of concentrating on the shopping and then he put his hand out and I didn't see he put

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