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, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday morning. So people often ask

how looking back over the last 10 or 12 years of Headspace, the thing that makes me

sort of happiest, the thing that I'm most proud of and it isn't really something necessary

to do with Headspace. It's actually broader than that and it's not even something necessarily.

I mean, anywhere response before is more something that sort of coincided or happened along

the way, alongside running almost as sort of a parallel path with Headspace. And that's

this idea that just as a society, we are more comfortable talking about our mental health.

It's become, I think like I feel like people have permission now to say I feel anxious,

I feel sad, feel angry, whatever it might be. Even just 10 years ago it's easy to forget

to just 10 years ago. That wasn't really a thing. We talked a lot about our physical

health. It definitely didn't talk about how important it was to maintain from a preventative

point of view to try to prepare for those difficult times in life. There wasn't room,

there wasn't space and I don't think there was the broader acceptance to acknowledge the

fact that as human beings sometimes we don't feel great and that's normal, that's okay.

And this came up the other day, I was chatting with a friend and they were talking about

how they had been feeling during lockdown and talking about sort of the challenges of parenting

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