Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you ever have this unfollow fantasy?

Maybe not just unfollowing, but just escaping your life.

I'll never forget a conversation I had with a friend of mine.

Maybe it was two, perhaps three years ago. I was launching lots of new exciting things. I was

definitely busier than ever. Much more was popping up in my calendar. And I said to her,

I just want to run away into the woods when no one can talk to me for a while and be by myself.

And she was like, yeah, me too. Oh my gosh, it's getting so overwhelming right now. But I'm scared if I don't do one thing, like I'm going to get in trouble. If I drop the ball in one area, you know, the pitchforks are going to be out. People are going to start coming for me. And we will laugh and laugh. And I've got to tell you,

I do have this fleeting feeling sometimes of wanting to just shut it all down and go and live in a lemon grove in the south of France with no phone, no one having my address and sipping

my sparkling water by the pool with earmuffs on so I can't

hear a thing. Can you relate? Maybe going through a busy season or maybe this has always been

at the back of your mind a little bit. I know a friend of mine with young kids often joke,

I just want to run away. I just want to run away and be alone. So if you ever had this,

you know the one. Disappear. Go into the woods. What does it mean? Right. What does it mean?

I get it. You know, sometimes we need a break from social media. Sometimes we actually do need a change or a

vacation. But I find that my escape fantasy isn't about relocating or giving everything up or being

alone. It's more about this feeling of liberation and just freeing myself, right? It's not about

another part of the world or not

having devices or not having demands or responsibilities. It's about me giving myself permission

to do what it is that I need, like take a break, say no to that, restructure something,

perhaps even delegate more.

The fantasy, I believe that we have sometimes, isn't about anything mystical or out there or having a castle or having a place to run to.

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