Hey everyone, it's Dora here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand new

call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers along with

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

mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've ever

created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every Tuesday

on the Headspace app and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So I don't know if you ever get those thoughts

in your mind. Those thoughts that maybe they scare you a little bit, they're thoughts

that you don't necessarily feel proud of, not that we should feel proud or guilty of any

thoughts, thoughts to spontaneously arising the mind. But we have this tendency as human

beings to want to own our thoughts. So we tend to see some as some that we're very proud

of, maybe they're very virtuous thoughts, other thoughts that maybe shock us or surprise

us or terrify us and we feel less good about those. Anyway yesterday I was working on a project

for the future and we were discussing various things and we got into my life pre-head space

working at a clinic in London where I used to see people for all kinds of different reasons.

I was seeing one particular lady who was struggling with post-nakele depression. She'd had an incredibly

tough time, really, really lovely lady, good person, you know. As we continued to speak,

she was very clear there was something on her mind and she felt able to talk up to her

point but not really fully express how strongly she'd been feeling. And anyway we sat in silence

actually for quite a long time. The idea just being there was a space there if she wanted

to say something she could and eventually we would do some meditation later in the session.

But anyway eventually she managed to find a way through her tears to say that she'd been

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