Louise Jefferies

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999 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 Jul

Louise Jefferies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And I stand up for myself and I defend myself, that's not always the best.

So I learnt that in these situations being calm is a lot safer and a lot easier.

And I think it was not the the violence.

But the the explosiveness and then the not talking about it, the sweeping it under as if it didn't happen.

Yes, definitely.

And I love your analogies of sea squirts.

I've read your book and the sea squirr is a is a just a brilliant uh visual that we can all like identify with.

Yes and no, but what I notice with superpowers is

There's a down side.

There's always a I think there's a flip side to everything.

So the danger with calm is that you then it's also I mean even a superpower can be a survival technique.

So there are times you then have to break through the superpower of calm and realise actually this is a time where I have to stand up.

Where I have to stand I'm getting

Yeah, that sort of thing.

So you can go too far into a superpower and just always be in that and not challenge yourself.

I think it's a

Not a fine line, but a broad line that we need to have that we say, okay, I could just stay calm here and it would be safe.

Calm is my superfair, it's also a safe space.

I'm also gonna get walked over at times.

Yeah, to be allowed to put give myself permission.

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