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Halle guilty feminist, this is Deborah.

I am hell busy at the moment and I am sure you are too.

Sometimes we need somebody to talk to about the stuff going on in the world and the stuff going on in our world, the macro and the micro.

I did a guilty feminist episode some years ago where I said I thought therapy wasn't for me because I had had such a tricky time in therapy.

So many listeners wrote to me, so many therapists wrote to me and said don't say that or the podcast, therapy is amazing.

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