This episode of It's Going to be Okay is presented by the Hartford.
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I'm Nora McNerny and it's going to be okay, which is hard for me to say let alone believe
because I am depressed.
But on the advice of my therapist, I am searching for one okay thing about every day and bringing
it to you.
It's going to be okay is a new daily podcast filled with okay things from me, my friends
and from you.
Find it's going to be okay wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Nora McNerny and it's going to be okay.
Our okay thing today comes from an anonymous listener submission.
This is one of the very first ones we ever received and a brief content warning that it
does discuss suicide.
So listen with care.
Okay, so I am responding to your prompt of things that make me feel like it's going
to be okay.
I have a story.
When I was in college, I was going through it.
It was tough.
And one morning I opened post secret, which if you don't know is a blog where people send
in postcards with their secret on it.
And I found a secret that I had sent eight years prior.
It was a suicide note that I had written, ripped up, put in an envelope and written on
the back inside this envelope or the ripped up remains of a suicide note.
I didn't use, I feel like the happiest person on earth now.
And that secret was used on their website as an example of an inspirational suicide
secret.
And after that, I realized that my secret had been featured in the curator of the swag's
10 talk.
And this envelope is the ripped up remains of a suicide note I didn't use.
I feel like the happiest person on earth now.
And the TED talk was played in the Smithsonian.
So my inspirational suicide secret was featured in the Smithsonian.
And sometimes when I'm feeling down, I just Google post secret suicide envelope to see
all the news outlets that have shared my secret.
And basically, all the ways that my secret has reached people I don't even know and think
if my 14 year old self was able to reach people in such a profound way, I think I'm going
to be okay.
And I can help people now.
Anyway, that was maybe a little bit complicated, but that is how I know that things are going
to be okay.
I'm Nora McInerney, and it's going to be okay.
The it changes every day and for every person, but that's the beauty of it.
You can share your okay thing with us at 612-568-4441 or email us a voice note at iGTBO
at Feelingsand.co.
We will link to that email in our show notes.
It's going to be okay as a production of Feelings and Co.
We are an independent company and we rely on listeners like you to share our work.
So thank you for being here.
And thank you if you share this with a friend or an enemy.
This episode was produced by Megan Palmer and Claire McInerney with help from Marcel
Malakibu and Eugene Kidd.
It was recorded in my home, McInerney Studios.
Our theme music is by Secret Audio.
I think that is the whole entire thing.
That's the whole episode.
It's going to be okay.
This episode of It's Going to Be Okay was brought to you by the Hartford.
For too long, the insurance industry has been using terms and descriptions that make
understanding your employee benefits next to impossible.
The Hartford wants to change that.
They're a leading group benefits provider that uses easy to understand language to describe
their products so normal people like us know what we're really getting when we choose our
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Learn more at the Hartford.com slash benefits.