This is a serial podcast episode in 10 parts that you can listen to with these links:
Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here, Youtube Podcasts here
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Shedding Skin - Confessions of an Itchoholic
Episode 10 (of 10) - Acceptance
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In this episode - Hope! Healing! The meaning of life! (maybe...)
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Shedding Skin - Confessions of an Itchoholic is my memoir of growing up with a body that was not east to inhabit. It will be released an episode each week for a few months. Citing neuroscientists, philosophers and modern-day poets (rockstars) and exploring the 90s popular culture that shaped me (its music, movies and video games), Shedding Skin is a rollicking, humorous ride of self-analysis about the confusion and alienation of growing up with chronic health battles, the disorientating effects of coping mechanisms (like alcohol and drug dependencies), and my eventual flailing attempts to understand how to live a deep life whilst struggling with new parenthood. It is recommended that it is listened to in order like an audiobook.
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Subheadings:
1 Answers
2 Covid Calamities
3 Chronic Again
4 Ill Health and Suffering
5 Scar Tissue
6 War
7 Gratitude
8 Don’t Wish Your Body Away
9 Veneer One Last Time
10 Altered States and Spirituality
11 Parenting One Last Time
12 Co-dependency
13 Self Honestly and Shedding
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Thanks for listening to episode 10 / 10.
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Find me at sheddingskin.substack.com and on Twitter/X @nick_gilpin_
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