Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I'm coming to you today with something that I hope is very soothing.

This, I hope, is a very soothing message for you today.

And the message is this. It's okay to be different.

Let me say that again. It's okay to be different. I know logically you know this, right?

rationally, you're like, of course it's okay to be different. Everybody's different.

But in our hearts, in our nervous systems even, do we know that it's okay to be different?

We often find safety in being like others.

We don't want to upset anybody else. We want to be included.

We want to be liked. And being different can or can seemingly

threaten that. So we hide it, we tamper it down, we dim it down, we don't say what we mean,

we maybe don't even dress how we want to dress, we don't do the work we want to do in the world.

We do something that sounds good or that other people think is, you know, respectable.

What if it's really okay to be different?

If you knew this, if this really sunk in, what might you be doing differently now?

You know, when I started the Let It Be Easy podcast three years ago, thank you so much for your reviews,

by the way.

I read every single one and they really boost the podcast too.

So please leave one if you haven't already.

But when I started this podcast three years ago, a lot of my friends who

were very successful podcasters told me I have to do one episode, one or two episodes a week,

maybe one during the week, maybe one at a weekend. And there's an algorithm and there is a reason

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