Have you ever received a handful of flowers from someone... and still couldn't let go of the one thing that stung?

That's where this episode begins. A lunch with friends, a passing comment, and a question that slipped in quietly and wouldn't leave: Am I too much?

From that moment, Mercy traces something she's carried since childhood — the shy little girl who always knew things she couldn't explain, who learned to dress her knowing in apologetic language. Just a thought. Don't mind me. It's probably nothing.

And then one day, a woman named Brené Brown stepped onto a TED stage and named out loud what Mercy had already known for years. Not new information. Recognition. And with it — unexpectedly — permission.

This is a quiet episode about the difference between learning something and recognizing something. About the knowing that lives in you before anyone gives it a name. And about the permission none of us knew we were waiting for.

Stay curious.