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Episode 3: thank you for letting me focus on my recovery xoxo

Episode 3: thank you for letting me focus on my recovery xoxo

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On Christmas Day, Stephen records a short, slightly chaotic, oddly tender episode about a deceptively simple tool he learned from Mable: the Bertari Box — a four-point loop that explains how attitudes and behaviours bounce between you and everyone around you.


Picture a black void. At 12 o’clock: your attitudes (what you think and feel). At 3: your behaviours (what you do). At 6: other people’s attitudes. At 9: other people’s behaviours. And then the arrows: around and around, influencing each other until a bad mood becomes a culture — or a small act of care becomes a reset.


This is a practical episode about control without control-freakery: if you can only truly control your attitudes and your behaviours, then you can still change the room. A box of chocolates. A sincere public thank-you. A quiet, deliberate “do the right thing” — not because it’s cute, but because it’s contagious.


It’s also a weird little moment of gratitude, aimed straight at Mitchells & Butlers Retail Ltd: not for what happened… but for what the outcome has finally allowed — recovery, breathing space, and the return of agency.


Short. Human. Messy. And quietly defiant: you don’t need a perfect life to start a better loop.

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