I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Well, hello there.

It has been a while.

In fact, it has been around sort of nine, nine and a half months.

It was like a pregnancy.

Yes, I am back. I have been threatening to be back for a few months and then I

realized okay if I'm going to do this I'm just going to have to make the space because

you know what some things don't change my life is always

filled with stuff so in this episode I just want to give you we did the cliff notes of what's being going on with me on my big long break.

And of course I will share further insights and stories, you know, over the coming weeks and months in the subsequent episodes

but of fault use this episode as a way to introduce myself back to you all now

obviously if this is the first time you're ever listening to me, please go back and listen to earlier

episodes so you can get the gist of, for instance, why I went and took a big old break.

So what's being going on with me? Well, back in episode 99 when I said that I was winding up the podcast, I was in a space where I just felt that I needed to well make space. I felt that I needed to let go

over a hell of a lot of things, not because they had to be let go of forever, but just to understand

my bandwidth, my emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bandwidth.

And also to get a sense of what it is that I really wanted,

sometimes you have to let go of certain things that you do,

things that you've been doing for a long time in order to get a sense of what feels good

and right for you. I started blogging on June the 4th 2004. Baggage reclaim started September 12th 2005.

So I have been online and in one way or another sharing insights into my world, my journey, as well as helping people to figure out their own journeys.

And I've been doing that for, well, just over 14 years.

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