Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jemita Jamil. I hope you're all right. I know that

things are particularly fraught this week, especially online and in world news and there is so much

happening and there is a lot of division online and a lot of screaming at one another and that's

because terrible, terrible things are happening to human beings all around the world and there's

only so much that we can take before we just start to snap at each other online and so I just

want to reassure you that it's okay if you don't have all of the answers, it's okay if you don't

know exactly what to say, it's okay if you're not an expert on the things that you are reading about

online, there's always time to educate yourself, it's never too late to start learning, it's okay if

you find it stressful, it's okay if you find it overwhelming, it's okay if it makes you feel sad

and anxious, it's okay to step away for a minute just to breathe because you're no good to

anyone if you're completely burnt out and basically it's just okay to be completely

fucking overwhelmed because it's totally, totally overwhelming and it's hard to not be able to

fix every single person's pain in the world and we all wish we could but we can't so we just have

to do our best to support as many people as we possibly can in the best way we know how whilst

also looking after ourselves so that we will be around long enough and sustained enough to be able

to continue to care for others for a long period of time. Now speaking of not having all the answers,

I certainly don't and that's why I'm bringing you today's episode. We are going to do one of the

Ask Jameela anything episodes now this is a side series I have where basically you send me in

your questions, things that you're thinking about, things that you're struggling with, things that

you care about and you ask for my advice. Now because I dare not be so arrogant as to presume

that I have all of the answers as I've kind of just explained in a long rambling round, not rant but

plea for understanding and plea for you to give yourself some understanding. I get people who are

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