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with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,

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Hi there, it's Zeef here. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to a brand new week. I was chatting

with my twin sister the other day. She's in London and I'm in LA and we're extremely close.

She heads up the department that she works in and it's been a pretty stressful time over the last

couple of years. Like many folks during the height of the lockdowns, she wasn't sure if she was going

to lose her job or not, as everyone was downsizing and she lost half of her team. As we were chatting,

she gasped and said in a rather somber tone, oh shoot, my boss just emailed saying he wants to

meet this week. Now I've had emails like that before, I'm sure we all have and truly they never

really leave you going. I wonder what it's about. Time with my boss, it must be something good.

For the rest of our conversation, all she could focus on was what the meeting with her boss

might be about. She replayed over and over past conversations and just couldn't shake the

thoughts telling her that she was going to lose her job. I really felt for her because I've been

in that exact situation before, where our thoughts feel very fixed like what we are thinking will happen,

that the scenario running in the mind is the truth. Our thoughts are not the truth,

but they can really distort from what is. Instead of focusing on what is happening,

our perception of what we think is happening takes over. And you can see how that can be pretty

problematic, especially if we start making assumptions. I hated leaving the conversation with my

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