A heartfelt, reflective letter from your 30s to your teenage self, exploring nostalgia, identity, growing up, and the strange reality of still feeling like “younger you” on the inside.

‘Dear Teenage Me’ is an honest chat from our listener to her younger self filled with friendships, MSN chats, Bebo Top Friends drama, awkward crushes, nights out, and the emotional intensity of adolescence.

It reflects on the shift into adulthood: learning how to manage bills and responsibilities, realising life doesn’t follow a clear timeline, and discovering that resilience is often built through doing hard, unglamorous things you don’t always want to do. It also touches on nostalgia, the importance of having hobbies and identity outside of work and screens, and the quiet challenges of modern life in an “always online” world.

At its core, this episode is about acceptance — of growing older, of changing perspectives, and of still carrying your teenage self with you into adulthood. It’s honest, relatable, emotional, and grounding for anyone who has ever looked back and wondered how they got here so fast.

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