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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    “Maybe You Can Worry and Live” — Sophie Olson (opens the original)

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    Content warning and disclaimer. This episode includes personal accounts and discussions of childhood sexual abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, mental health difficulties and trauma. Please consider whether this conversation is appropriate for you at this time.This week, what if you could worry and still live your life?When survivor activist and author Sophie Olson joined me on the podcast, she brought something incredibly personal: a poem about worry, handwritten in her grandmother’s old recip

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    “Ready is a decision, not a feeling.” — Victoria Phipps MBE (opens the original)

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    “ I was actually very happy working a lot. And now I felt like just to get an email out was a mission, because someone would start crying, something would happen, a nappy would need changing. And I think there was something about grief over my own capacity, that work had just been such a part of who I was, and now I just physically couldn’t find a moment to do it, and also didn’t know what it was I wanted to do.”Hi there,When you are feeling utterly lost what helps? When something has kicked you

  3. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    “A poem can fundamentally change someone’s mood” – Deborah Alma (opens the original)

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    Welcome to A Thought I Kept, a weekly podcast about the one idea that stayed. Every Monday, I invite someone to answer one deceptively simple question: what is the one thought that you’ve kept? Out of all the ideas we’re exposed to everyday in all the ways, which ones mattered the most? There have been lines from books, wisdom from beloved grans, poems pushed across a desk, and words from friends in our darkest moments. These are the thoughts that my guests have kept close and you might want to

  4. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Transitioning from summer into.... something else? (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    “Choose Which Bits You Hear” — Hannah Wilson (opens the original)

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    Hi, I’m Claire Fitzsimmons. I’m a wellbeing writer, author, coach and the co-founder of If Lost Start Here. Welcome to A Thought I Kept, a weekly podcast about the one idea that stayed. Every Monday, I invite someone to answer one deceptively simple question: what is the one thought that you’ve kept? Because sometimes it is the one idea, the one sentence, the one shift in perspective or the one thing that someone says at exactly the right moment that does alter how we move through a week, throug

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