Nicole Gonato
Communications and Media Studies Student at Carleton University
Lockdown Love: A Podcast
November 14th, 2020 was a special day for many reasons this year, for starters it was my 22nd birthday, but it also essentially marked the eighth straight month of having to stay home...which essentially the worst way to spend your birthdays as a young twentysomething that's attempting to have fun before they get too old to.
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Though I managed to spend my birthday in a way that was both safe and satisfied my craving for a celebration, it made me realize that 2020 was definitely not what I had expected it to be. Spending one of my few years as a young adult in a pandemic was not part of my plans in the slightest.
Even though the loneliness sucked, lockdown provided me with a chance to learn to love myself as I am (as cheesy as that sounds) and to roll with the punches life throws.
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My podcast Lockdown Love acts as a means of telling my story of self-discovery during the lockdown and learning to love myself.
