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This Is The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

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Learn how to have better relationships with yourself and others

By The Blinkist Curators

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Sex & Relationships Mindfulness & Happiness Personal Development

Ever feel like your relationships are going around in circles? Host Natalie Lue is here with her Shortcast The Baggage Reclaim Sessions to tell you it doesn't have to be that way! This collection brings together some of her most popular episodes to help you reclaim your emotional baggage and cultivate better relationships with yourself and others.

This Is The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Learn how to have better relationships with yourself and others

10 Signs of Emotional Unavailability

10 Signs of Emotional Unavailability

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who runs hot, then cold? If yes, then you know how it can send your head spinning and have you doing things like jumping at receiving a text message from someone who's been leaving you on read for weeks. Maybe you end up concocting explanations for why they're distant or you end up feeling needy because you have, well, needs. Stop asking yourself why and start to identify. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's emotional unavailability! In this episode, you'll become familiar with the 10 key signs of emotional unavailability. Once you learn how to recognize them, you'll be able to see and call things what they are. What's more, you'll become aware of how you treat yourself the same way, so that deep down you don't believe you deserve better from someone else.

Perfectionism and The Idealised Self

Perfectionism and The Idealised Self

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Do you ever feel that if you could only be a bit more perfect that your life would be happier and easier? There's nothing wrong with us having goals or aspiring to be better than we are now. The trouble is that when we focus on this idealized image we created in our head, we don't actually acknowledge that it’s idealized. In this episode you'll learn why it’s so important to acknowledge that this idealized version of you exists, and how you can become more aware of the things that you do—not because you actually want to do them, but because you think you should be doing them.

The 5 Landmarks of Healthy Relationships

The 5 Landmarks of Healthy Relationships

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Have you at one time or another found yourself looking for signs that your relationship is headed in a good direction? You might have thought, "They introduced me to their family," "They talked about the future," or "They said they love me." When we start analyzing everything they say or do, we can easily get lost because we lose sight of the bigger picture. This episode will show you how to recognize the 5 landmarks of healthy and mutually fulfilling relationships, so that you can use them to orient yourself. Instead of getting caught up in details, the presence of these landmarks will clearly let you know if your relationship is on the right track.

The Self-Care Sandwich

The Self-Care Sandwich

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Do you associate taking care of yourself with being selfish? You know putting everything and everyone else before yourself, because that's what a good person is "supposed" to do? If so, you might be needing some serious self-care. In this episode, Natalie helps you understand why taking care of yourself is your job, how to integrate it into your daily routine, and which questions to ask yourself to flag areas of your life where you need to prioritize yourself over others.

Friendship Is Different For Everyone

Friendship Is Different For Everyone

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

What happens when you feel conflicting feelings about friendships? We're taught that friendships should be easy or should look a certain way, and when they're not we can be left feeling confused. Friendships grow, wane and end, you grow and change in them, and expectations can change over time making us ask ourselves, "Isn't friendship supposed to feel good?" In this episode, you'll learn about integrating all those different ideas of what friendship really means. You'll also get an understanding of why we sometimes get caught up in toxic friendships, and what you can do to break free from unhealthy friendship patterns and have closer, more genuine connections with your friends.

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