Hey everyone, my name is Rosie and I'm one of the new hosts of Radio Headspace.

I'm an author and a yoga meditation teacher and my new episodes are debuting February of next year.

I can't wait to share them with you.

In the meantime, I'd like to let you know about a new show from Headspace Studios called Dear Headspace.

It's a call and advice show where Headspace teachers answer questions each week about anything and everything.

We talk about family, relationships, mindfulness and so much more.

You can find Dear Headspace on the Headspace app or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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

I was chatting to a good friend the other day.

She's a life and business coach and we were discussing how easy it can be sometimes to put yourself down.

And the conversation came about as we were discussing how much had changed since we first met.

So we both used to work in advertising and neither one of us ever thought we would end up doing the work that we do now.

I like a lot of folks and my own worst critic and can often be quite hard on myself.

Even after years of practicing meditation, this is something I have to work on.

I'm in the middle of quite an intensive training program and I was only focusing on what I still had to learn, not on what I actually had learned and it was causing a lot of tension.

And my friend could see that I was struggling a little bit and she asked me the following question.

What would you tell your younger self about where you are and what you've achieved?

It took a few moments to gather my thoughts on this and to turn down the self-criticism and not to feel a little silly in answering it.

But I decided to do it and said to my younger self, you decided to leave advertising as it wasn't making you happy.

It took some time to figure that out and that's okay as there was a lot going on in your life that wasn't making you happy.

There was a lot of pain. You got a job at Headspace where you get to lead meditations every day.

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