Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me Psychotherapist Anna Martha.

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being.

Hi there, you have a solo episode, just me chatting away for the next 10 minutes and I'm going to share with you five things that will help when you feel excluded.

This came from a listener question. But before I launch in I just want to say if you're enjoying the podcast don't forget to

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forget also that you can drop me an email with a question because today I'm

answering a listener question and somebody dropped me an email and they said,

Anna, you talk a bit about the loneliness we experience sometimes in motherhood.

And I have a number of friends who have been going along to groups where they have not felt accepted.

I recently saw members of my Antonatal group, some of whom I thought were close friends,

out for a drink, which I wasn't invited to. I felt really upset about it. I'd love a

podcast on how to deal with exclusion, especially during times when you're

already feeling lonely. I think we've all had those moments, those moments of

seeing people do stuff and knowing that we've been left out for some reason

accidentally or intentionally or just maybe even going along to a group or spending times with friends

spending times with friends and just feeling like you're just not part of it in the way

that you had hoped or maybe the way that you felt previously.

So I'm going to give you five ways to deal with these feelings that we have when we might feel a bit

rejected or a bit left out or a bit excluded.

So number one, acknowledge your feelings.

Of course I'm always going to say something like this because it's okay to feel hurt and confused.

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