The Song Diary: "Can't Help Thinking About Me"
Hi Strong Reception fans! I\u2019m back and I\u2019m trying something different here - a very short-form solo episode under the heading \u201cThe Song Diary\u201d. Since moving to London, I\u2019ve had an urge to create quickly digestible episodes where I choose a song that\u2019s speaking to me at the moment because of what\u2019s going on in my life and in my head.
I hope you enjoy this reflective little dive into a little-known song called \u201cCan\u2019t Help Thinking About Me\u201d from 1966, by an as-yet unknown songwriter named Davy Jones, who had only just changed his name to David Bowie. I think this brave little teenage song is so different for its time and gets at some very adult things - even if it didn\u2019t mean to! What happens to our brains and our bodies when we suffer a serious blow? If you\u2019re anything like me - it\u2019s an instinctive momentary regression to childhood that can overtake us if we don\u2019t go to work on it. But I also think it\u2019s vital and totally okay to acknowledge that we feel like a friendless kid when the sh-t goes sideways! X
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