Finding My Independence + Learning How To Enjoy My Own Company
Happy Hour with Gretchen Geraghty
Gretchen
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I'm finally dedicating an entire episode to my journey of finding independence. It may sound odd to those of you who are naturally independent, but for me it was something I really had to work on. I explain my rude awakening of realizing it was a big issue that I couldn't be alone and how I went from there. It started with really reflecting on myself and trying to face my fears. I also explain how I started to build my relationship with myself and enjoy my own company. If you struggle with independence know that you're not alone and you can work on it just like I did :)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to this episode of the Happy Hour Podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:05.2 | Gretchen Garity. And this episode, I'm very excited for it because it's been requested in a way |
| 0:14.8 | by you guys. And you know what, it really has actually more than once. I'm going to talk about |
| 0:20.5 | like recently how what kind of sparked my idea for this. But also whenever I bring up |
| 0:25.8 | the topic of independence, how I've really found my personal independence, learning to enjoy |
| 0:32.8 | my own company. I would say questions about it. I think maybe because people that follow me relate |
| 0:38.8 | in struggling with that either currently or in the past and they want tips or just kind of like |
| 0:43.9 | interesting now. Like why was it that you struggled with your independence before? Why can |
| 0:48.7 | you be alone? Why can't you do things on your own and now you can? So yeah, I'm just like really |
| 0:53.3 | excited for this episode to be able to chat about all this because it really has like transformed |
| 0:57.4 | my life. That sounds dramatic, but it really has because I will explain to you how debilitating |
| 1:02.8 | it was not being able to spend any time on my own because quite literally I couldn't. I would just |
| 1:10.9 | be an anxious mess. I don't know. It's so sad that that is the way that it was, but I guess in a way |
| 1:17.1 | it makes me appreciate my independence these days even more. This is actually perfect timing |
| 1:25.2 | since I just spent the last three days here in my apartment like fully alone. It packs us away |
| 1:31.3 | for hockey. I saw my neighbors, you know, FaceTime my sister, but that's about it. And I feel like |
| 1:39.8 | those little social interactions matter that much more and for someone that's extremely extroverted |
| 1:45.8 | like myself, like chatting with a couple of my neighbors yesterday while Broughty is playing with |
| 1:50.1 | their dogs. Really just kind of like filled up my social battery, which is nice that I have that |
| 1:56.5 | as an option. And in a way like back to encoded is when I really realized how like I've always known |
| 2:02.8 | I'm such an extroverted person, but like it's when I really notice like these little moments of like |
| 2:07.5 | chatting with neighbors, chatting with the mailman, chatting with workers at a store. It was like a |
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