We Weren't Told | Episode 13: Your Body Is Keeping Score

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

I've been in the thick of something heavy with some family members — and then I got a message from one of my most cherished friends that made everything I'd been carrying look completely different. She is fighting for her life. And I realised I'd been filing my body's notifications without opening them.

In this episode, I'm talking about what our bodies are trying to tell us — and what happens when we keep postponing that conversation.

In this episode:

• The tightness in my throat and the dizziness I kept filing away
• The message from my friend that cracked something open and wouldn't close again
• Why the body is a messenger, not just a surface to manage and present
• What chronic stress is actually doing in the places you can't feel yet
• Bombay mangoes, oxtail, and why life insists on beauty in the same week as the grief
• Where is the tightness in your body right now — and when did you last stop to ask it what it's trying to tell you?

Grab your drink or your ired coffee, my friend. It's go time.

Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽

@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpod

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

I went to a moms' networking event a few weeks ago and as part of an icebreaker, a woman pulled a pair of tiny socks out of her handbag. She said being her son's mother is the most important thing she has ever done in her life — and she meant it with her whole chest. And I sat there and felt something I couldn't immediately name. It took me a few days to be honest about what it actually was.

In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when you love your children fiercely — and still can't locate the feeling that they are the greatest part of you.

In this episode:

• Hunter Biden in MAGA comment sections — and what owning your shame actually does
• The tiny socks moment and the feeling I didn't want to admit I had
• Why I don't experience the greatest part of me as someone else — and the shame that came with that
• Whether any of us can actually rank the greatest thing we've ever done
• The motherhood script that had no category for women who refused to disappear
• Are you allowed to be the most interesting thing about yourself?

Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽

@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

Threads was on fire this morning. Jay-Z showed up at The Roots Picnic — combed-out locks, dressed in the black Tims, fifty-seven years old and completely himself. Meanwhile Drake dropped three albums after two years of silence and the internet split right down generational lines. And I couldn't stop asking myself: which one am I?

In this episode, I'm talking about what two rap legends taught me about what it means to actually inhabit the chapter you're in — versus performing one you've already left.

In this episode:

• Jay-Z on that stage vs. Drake in his feelings — and what the contrast really means
• What Kendrick's beef revealed about authenticity that's hard to unsit with
• Why I have some Drake in me — and why I'm not ashamed of it
• The difference between feeling young on the inside and performing young on the outside
• Why growing into yourself loudly was never in the script we were handed
• Are you inhabiting the chapter you're actually in — or performing the one you've already left?

Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽

@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast