Guys hi!
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I hope you didn't miss me too much last week (although the previous week was quite lengthy. If you missed it catch up here: Growing Up: ending social anxiety + let's talk about race (in a not annoying way) + Alzheimer's)

This week is just a quick one! Although I do have two podcast eps to tell you about...

But first:

UNIDENTIFIED GUEST

Ah, but we die to each other daily.
What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.

To pretend that they and we are the same
Is a useful and convenient social convention
Which must sometimes be broken.
We must also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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- From the play The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot (1948)

... I haven't switched to reading plays. I came across it in the book I told you about last week, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach. Her point is "we forget that every person, including ourselves, is new in every moment... while we can of course recognise patterns of behaviour in ourselves and others, our collection of assumptions doesn't define a person".

How freeing to say: that's who I was yesterday. That's how I thought, looked and behaved. But I am growing and changing everyday. Who knows what the me in six months from now will be like? How they will see the world. What will light them up.
... and then to grant others the freedom to grow and change as well. Hurrah!
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​This (and last) week on Growing Up with Delia Burgess​
Ep. 97 - Georgie Owen: accepting yourself for being "too much"
​Georgie is a lawyer based in Melbourne who is passionate about food & diet culture.
insta: @conceivingitall

This was such a cool conversation. Georgie has big / chaotic energy. Because of this you would maybe think she's therefore really confident and sure of herself. Turns out people who are "a lot" can feel like they are "too much" and struggle to accept themselves as well... just that Georgie's response to being told she was too much was to continue being loud whereas my response was to try and shrink myself and play small. Lame. I feel like that conversation was like an energy transfusion and now I'm way more inspired to be myself yay!

Ep. 98 - Delia Burgess: why the podcast, depression & mushies
​Truth be told I did not have an episode for this week. Oops. Neil had mentioned interviewing me ages ago so I invited him on to do just that (it's also about a year since I was last interviewed on the podcast by Bryan, Ep. 50). Such a good reminder to me how nerve racking it is being interviewed when you have no idea what the person is going to ask! Eeep. Bit slow to start but then a great convo.
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Both are video eps on Spotify! So cool.
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