Radio Headspace

When everything starts to feel too close, sometimes you don't need another solution. You just need a little more room. A walk, a drive, a few quiet minutes where nothing is being asked of you can create enough distance to hear yourself again. What if taking space isn't about escaping your life, but giving yourself the room to return to it more present?
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Have you ever known exactly what you wanted to say, then immediately started talking yourself out of saying it? Maybe it isn't worth bringing up. Maybe you're overreacting. Maybe speaking up will only make things worse. Rosie looks at how the lessons we learn about expressing emotion can follow us long after we've left the rooms where we learned them.
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Anxiety makes a compelling promise: Get everything under control and then you'll feel better. So we plan more, predict more, and prepare for possibilities that haven't happened. But certainty keeps moving further away. The harder we grip, the more tension we can create around the uncertainty that was already there.
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We're surrounded by people explaining the world to us, often in a few confident sentences. So how do you tell the difference between something that sounds right and something you actually understand? Maybe discernment begins not with immediately deciding yes or no, but becoming comfortable enough to say, I'm not sure yet.
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Have you ever felt something change in your body and immediately wondered if something was wrong? A sudden hot flash catches Rosie completely off guard, and her mind races to explain it. Her experience with perimenopause becomes a lesson in noticing the difference between what the body is feeling and the frightening story the mind can quickly build around it.
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