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The Permission Slip

The quiet places where people wait for approval to feel, leave, rest, want, or refuse.

100 episodes209,630 words

Episode index

All 100 episodes

  1. 051Permission to Stop Improving2,196 words
  2. 052Permission to Not Be Healed on Schedule2,011 words
  3. 053Permission to Be Sad Longer Than Other People Like2,031 words
  4. 054Permission to Feel Joy During a Bad Year2,057 words
  5. 055Permission to Not Turn Pain Into Wisdom2,023 words
  6. 056Permission to Be Scared Without Calling It Intuition2,087 words
  7. 057Permission to Not Be Inspirational2,124 words
  8. 058Permission to Need Recovery Without a Certificate2,159 words
  9. 059Permission to Not Optimize Everything2,045 words
  10. 060Permission to Waste Time on Purpose2,113 words
  11. 061Permission to Speak Before You Have Citations2,012 words
  12. 062Permission to Not Sound Smart1,994 words
  13. 063Permission to Ask the Basic Question2,088 words
  14. 064Permission to Be Wrong in Public2,000 words
  15. 065Permission to Not Have Perfect Politics2,086 words
  16. 066Permission to Want Beauty Without Defending It2,177 words
  17. 067Permission to Like What the Wrong People Like2,040 words
  18. 068Permission to Drop the Taste Performance2,012 words
  19. 069Permission to Not Have a Brand2,085 words
  20. 070Permission to Be Inconsistent While Becoming2,096 words
  21. 071Permission to Leave the Hometown Story2,126 words
  22. 072Permission to Not Want Children2,042 words
  23. 073Permission to Want Children Without Irony2,078 words
  24. 074Permission to Stay Childless Without a Tragedy Narrative2,090 words
  25. 075Permission to Age Without Rebranding2,070 words
  26. 076Permission to Be Average at Something You Love2,086 words
  27. 077Permission to Stop Performing Resilience2,071 words
  28. 078Permission to Need Ceremony2,021 words
  29. 079Permission to Believe You Are Not Too Late2,007 words
  30. 080Permission to Begin Again Without an Origin Story2,042 words
  31. 081Permission to Not Answer Right Away2,212 words
  32. 082Permission to End the Conversation2,163 words
  33. 083Permission to Refuse Access to Your Inner Life2,122 words
  34. 084Permission to Not Be Nice to Predation2,120 words
  35. 085Permission to Let the Friendship Cool2,094 words
  36. 086Permission to Admit You Are Lonely2,109 words
  37. 087Permission to Want Community Without Performing Ease2,179 words
  38. 088Permission to Need Witnesses2,115 words
  39. 089Permission to Stop Curating Your Damage2,108 words
  40. 090Permission to Be Happy Before Everyone Approves2,115 words
  41. 091Permission to Live Smaller Than Your Potential2,199 words
  42. 092Permission to Live Bigger Than Your Biography2,200 words
  43. 093Permission to Not Return to the Old Self2,048 words
  44. 094Permission to Choose Peace Over Impressiveness2,068 words
  45. 095Permission to Have a Life Nobody Claps for2,029 words
  46. 096Permission to Leave Emergency Mode2,014 words
  47. 097Permission to Stop Earning Your Place2,079 words
  48. 098Permission to Trust the Quiet Yes2,074 words
  49. 099Permission to Let Desire Make the Decision2,059 words
  50. 100Permission to Sign Your Own Name2,014 words