Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

So I got an email in my inbox from my incredible friend, Ash Amberghay, and I really, really recommend you tune into our podcast interview. It was last year. Her name is Ash,

As-H-A-M-B-I-R-G-E. She's an incredible writer. She's hilarious. I love her points of view.

She's the author of The Middle Finger Project. And when I saw her email in my

inbox, I thought, I've just got to read this out to my pod listeners because it is so good.

This is what she has to share, my friends. I'm going to read it out to you today.

Every time you flake on yourself, your brain takes notes.

Advice for your ambition is strong, but your follow-through is asleep. Do you ever make a

promise to yourself and then break it over and over and over again.

There's nothing worse, except maybe finding sun dried tomatoes in your grilled cheese.

She says here, why, the name sounds so good, but they're so bad.

I agree with you there, Ash. And the most biggest, ugliest, icest, most vile part about it is.

Every time you break a promise to yourself, you're also teaching yourself a lesson.

You cannot be trusted.

Now, I like trusting myself.

I found it to be an imperative part of living a life I give a shit about. If you can't

trust yourself, what do you have? A limp-spined, paralyzed, pathetic mockery of a life. Oh,

Ash, I love you. It'd be like having to ask your husband what he thinks about everything,

because you have no idea. Imagine just sitting there like a sad, quiet, withdrawn,

washed up, deflated cartoon version of yourself wishing you had something to care about.

Gosh, she doesn't hold back, does she, friends? The way to start caring about things is by caring

about yourself. And the way to start caring about yourself is by respecting what you

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