Welcome, Lauren here and this is a quiet, comforting catch-up talk.

If you listen carefully, you can hear in the background the flicker of a flame.

It is an electronic flame so it makes a little bit of a tapping sound.

And I've got my oil burner boiling away, so to speak. I'm just turning the candle off.

I'm not going to edit this talk to you because I just want to

throw it up there and make it public and when I edit it takes me hours. You've asked me a couple of

questions. Firstly, all the issues with the podcast have been ironed out

and all the episodes are back. I did ask you to email me if your favourite episode was not public because my host took a lot of them down because

of an IT problem. And then I received so many lovely letters that after saying I would reply,

I was physically not able to reply so that was a learning

for me that I want to be one on one with you however although I feel there is

one of you there is more than one.

So the podcast is up and running again.

Yippee.

Woo-hoo, isn't that?

Wonderful.

Then a couple of you have asked me about any changes.

I will never do less meditation.

I love to write. I love to meditate.

I love to explore cognitive behavioural therapies.

I enjoy counselling. I love writing and I love this community.

Can hear that in the background? The cockatoos have come for a visit. It's so interesting in the cockatoos because they make a sound

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