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

Hello, welcome to today's episode.

I'm just going to freestyle this episode, you know.

I've got some thoughts I want to share with you and something really exciting to tell you about.

So the thoughts I want to share with you are how I guess it's the message behind so much of what I do and the resources that I create is that it's you

know so many things are common worry guilt overwhelm anxiety common. Worry, guilt, overwhelm, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, trauma, the impacts of trauma, challenging relationships,

tricky family dynamics, you know, they're so common.

And we can find great comfort in that, can't we?

When we speak to other people and we find out that they have some of the same feelings as us or some of the

same worries or feel that rage or feel that guilt and it can feel really comforting

to know that, oh, I'm not alone, it's common, it's fine.

And I think that is the first step.

I think if we stop there, then we're missing out and so much more.

In that recognition that so much of what we fear, what we worry about, perhaps some of the mental health challenges that we have in that

knowledge that they're common is really helpful because it starts taking the

shame away. There are things that I used to really beat myself up about.

There are moments in the last couple of years

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