Ep. 285: Having Your Own Back: What Self-Advocacy Really Means
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Natalie takes us on a candid exploration of self-advocacy and what it means to truly have our own back. Drawing from her personal experiences in 2024, she digs into why speaking up for ourselves can feel so challenging, how our people-pleasing tendencies get in the way, and why being "difficult" or causing inconvenience when advocating for ourselves isn't just okay - it's necessary for our wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, a podcast about building, |
| 0:07.6 | growing and sustaining healthy and intimate relationships with yourself and those around you |
| 0:12.9 | by reclaiming yourself from your emotional baggage. Since 2005, I've been writing one of the |
| 0:18.9 | longest running self-help blogs in the world, baggage reclaim. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm a dating and relationship coach, and I'm also author of five books, including Mr. |
| 0:27.0 | Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and the Joy of Saying No. |
| 0:31.2 | Everything I share on the podcast will help you break the cycle by healing the past through |
| 0:36.2 | increasing emotional availability, |
| 0:38.7 | cutting back on people pleasing, creating healthier boundaries and ultimately owning who you are. |
| 0:44.6 | You don't have to settle for crumbs from yourself or others, |
| 0:47.3 | and you can give and receive love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, let's do this. |
| 0:58.1 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? |
| 1:05.0 | Merry Christmas, happy holidays to all of you who celebrate. At the time of recording this, |
| 1:10.2 | it is the day after Christmas, so December 26th, we call it St. Stevenson's Day in Ireland, |
| 1:12.1 | in England and many other countries. |
| 1:13.4 | We call it Boxing Day. |
| 1:17.3 | And it's a pretty quiet day in our household. |
| 1:25.1 | I haven't had a chance to record this episode, even though the subject has been on my mind for what feels like ages. |
| 1:29.7 | Because, well, between that cycle of illnesses that I referred to in the previous episode and then just festive preparations plus I'm getting ready for a big |
| 1:34.6 | operation at the beginning of 2025 I just ran out of bandwidth to get everything fitted in but |
| 1:41.3 | it does feel quite nice to be recording this in the quietness of the 26th. |
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