Gemma Speck

what kind of themes regret clusters around in order to avoid it yourself.

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What's something you actually thought you would regret but didn't?

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Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Speck and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here.

Let me ask you something.

Have you ever sat down to rest, like genuinely rest, and within minutes you've just felt this like dreaded sense of guilt creeping in?

Not boredom, not like, oh I should probably do the dishes.

I mean like this sense of like I'm doing something wrong, like

I have broken a rule here.

I have stolen time.

I've stolen something I haven't paid for.

What makes this so confusing, because I know this is something a lot of us experience, is like rest is one of the most basic human needs we have.

Your brain and your body require a recovery time to function normally.

Just like you don't deserve food or you don't deserve water.