Feminine Healing, Hard-Won Dating Advice, and Why Real Love Feels Calm

In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia opens with the song she hasn't been able to stop thinking about: Click Clack Symphony by Raye, featuring Hans Zimmer. A song about feeling stuck, dancing through the sadness with your friends, and trusting hard moments in life are just a season and will unfold exactly how they are meant to.Connecting back to last week's episode on uncertainty and change, Saskia shares why these lyrics hit differently mid-gym session, and what her therapist said an hour later that made them land even harder. What does it mean to sit with sadness, rather than rush out of it? And why does hope sometimes arrive in the most unexpected places?Then comes the pivot. Saskia reached out to six of her closest friends and asked for dating advice they wish they had. From straddling someone on a third date to treating dating like the stock market, from manufactured proximity to giving yourself full permission to want love, their stories are funny, honest, and deeply real.And really the thread running through all of it... through the album, the dating advice, the life lessons... is the same. You will save yourself. Not the situationship. Not the person you're waiting on. You.