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- Facing Feelings: Embracing Big Emotions with CuriosityShow Notes In this episode of “Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice,” Patricia and Nicole recount their recent trip to New York City, where they celebrated Patricia’s birthday by seeing a couple musicals and spending quality time with old friends. They also discuss the importance of embracing and understanding one’s own emotions, despite the discomfort or… Read more: Facing Feelings: Embracing Big Emotions with Curiosity
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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle (aka Patricia Elzie) is a writer, podcaster, and librarian. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. More of her written work can also be found on Book Riot, in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia is co-host of the All the Books and All the Backlist podcast, where she recommends a variety of reads. She lives in Oakland, CA with her wife Nicole and a positively alarming amount of books.

Nicole has eaten tacos in Sweden and Beijing.
Neither were remotely good. Not even passable.