In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how to cope in a pandemic when we have so much time on our hands, what to do if you find yourself stressing about using your free time productively and how to stop feeling the constant need to be busy. She talks about how we as a society have glorified being busy for so long and why that has resulted in the pandemic being such a shock to so many people. She gives you tips on how to learn to rest without guilt and talks about how an absence of rest often means an avoidance of your emails. She also discusses a scene in Firefly Lane and how codependent friendships can never be healthy.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how to love your body when it is in so much pain, how do you adjust when your body is stopping you from living your dream life and whether it is worth it to lose weight for insurance to cover your surgery. She goes into the difference between body positivity and body confidence and discusses how to love your body through chronic illness. She gives you tips on how to be more vocal within the body positive movement and why it's important to make your version of body positivity intersectional. She also discusses a scene in Gilmore Girls which brings up the classic scenario of how to handle it when you say 'I love you' and they don't say it back.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how to cut someone out, what to do if this person treats you differently to your other friend and whether you are allowed to cut someone out for giving you the silent treatment. She goes into how to handle it when people don't believe you and where to draw the line if someone is making up lies about you. She gives you tips on how to have that final conversation and what happens when there are mutual relationships and how when they get involved it results in triangulation. She also discusses a scene in The Crown which brings up the conversation whether a parent is allowed to have a favourite child and what impact that has on the family dynamic.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how you grieve someone who is still alive, whether feelings of grief for an old therapist confuses feelings for a new therapist and what do you do if you wish you had spent more time together. She gives you tips on how to process grief and whether it's possible to move on from grief or whether moving on "with" grief is healthier and explains that grief is an emotion that can arise around any loss and not just bereavement. She also discusses a scene in Breaking Bad in processing feelings around anticipatory grief and how to separate your feelings about someone else's situation.

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In this special bonus episode, Michelle discusses how she found out about pick-up artists, why that relates to her training as a life coach and how neuro-linguistic programming are related to both. She goes back through her life and recalls moments that she now recognises as pick-up artist techniques and how the book "Men Who Hate Women" has opened up an important conversation that needs to be had. The increased awareness around this secret community is essential for changes to take place and be able to recognise when it is happening in your own life so she shares a few techniques she has witnessed herself.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on what to do if you want kids but your partner gets angry everytime you bring the conversation up, whether it's acceptable to be jealous of your partner's friend and if money is a legitimate reason to end a relationship. She gives you tips on how to have productive arguments within a relationship and talks about how romantic relationships often brings up our shadow self and uses an example from her own life to demonstrate how we can use it as an opportunity to heal and grow. She also discusses a scene in Normal People when the main character finds herself at dinner with her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend and it all goes horribly wrong.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how to manage the fear of making new friends, what to do if your partner feels lonely every time you leave and what to do if you already feel lonely and your friends keep cancelling. She gives you tips on how to process loneliness and heal from it as a childhood wound and explains the difference between alone and lonely. She also discusses a scene in Dawson's Creek and how to honour someone's vulnerability when they reveal something they are embarrassed about.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on what to do when a friend ghosts you, how you stop ghosting from affecting your self esteem and what to do when ghosting makes you doubt that the relationship even happened. She gives you tips on how to heal from the rejection and hurt that ghosting can cause and talks about how we need to take control of the parts we can control and why ghosting is the biggest turn off. She also discusses a scene in Emily In Paris when she tells her boyfriend she is moving to Paris and how that conversation could have gone!

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on how to find your first job after graduation, what to do if your health affects your ability to work your dream job and how do you set boundaries with a boss who doesn't understand you are off the clock when you leave the office. She gives you tips on how to write a CV with a difference and talks about how the pressure for your first job to be the right job is too high and how to change your mentality around starting from the bottom in middle-age.

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In this episode, Michelle answers questions on what to do if you can't feel your emotions, how do your resolve childhood memories if you can't remember what happened and how do you stop crying when everything is going wrong. She gives you tips on how to process emotions and she shares why the way society talks about emotions is wrong and why we need to change the stereotype that emotions mean weakness.

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