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Oct 2025
27m 8s

When No One Wants You

Zoë Lilou
About this episode

i talk about rejection, childhood wounds, first relationships, and the weird shift from love to sex that happens when you grow up. about feeling undesirable, alone, and learning how to not lose myself in it. not a self-help episode. just me trying to make sense of it.

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