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Now, let's begin today's episode.

Sometimes, sometimes it stinks up quietly, right?

You're going about your day, doing the dishes, walk into class, answering the emails when something stirs.

Maybe it's a smell or sound or a word or a memory and then suddenly you're not here anymore.

You're somewhere else entirely.

Your heart races, your breath that catches, and tears, they just start falling and you're not even sure how to stop them.

If this is where you are right now, I want you to know, please listen to me.

You're not alone.

You are not doing this wrong.

Someone wrote in asking for an episode for the moments when all you can do is sit and cry.

So Matilda, I hear you, I do.

And you are not alone.

So this is an episode for those moments when it feels like too much.

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