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Best Relationship Advice from "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield, 2004

Best Relationship Advice from "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield, 2004

For those who have healthy self-love and love for life!

LaDena Kailing Garr
August 14, 2024

Fun fact, find the answer at the bottom of this email.

In 2020, why did Rolling Stone rank “Unwritten” #13 for Graduation Songs?

Feel-Good Relationship Advice from the Greatest Love Songs!

Live your life with arms wide open

For those who have healthy self-love and love for life!

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Read time: 5 minutes

Lyrics

I am unwritten
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you

I couldn’t wait to do this song ever since my life-long friend, Tina, pointed out that love songs don’t have to be about romantic love. In this song, the lyrics and energy explore the contagious effect of getting excited about one’s unknown potential.

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^{Remember your gifts! You can call up your strengths when you’re struggling. Ask yourself, “What am I good at? What are my strengths and moments when they really came out?” Sit with them, write them out, and remember what it felt like coming into your gifts, even in small ways.}

^{Doing so can bring a larger perspective: “Yes, this current challenge is a weak point for me, but I have strengths too.” A kind inner voice can bring reminders of your gifts: “It’s good I’m learning in this area, and it’s also true there are things I rock without trying too hard.”}

^{Like flying on a cloudy day and encountering the sun just above the clouds, your inner resources are present even if they’re hidden.}

by David Fessel, MD

Lyrics

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

What a celebration!

Adrien Begrand of PopMatters praised the song as "downright joyous, buoyed by a lilting acoustic guitar and a sing-along chorus"

If you are having a challenging day, play this song. Remind yourself how amazing life is. How amazing you are! Celebrate that!

Lyrics

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes
But I can't live that way

It is true that we all feel pressure to not make mistakes. How liberating it is to allow yourself to be human, to ask a lot of questions, to seek answers, to be in the moment, to try new things.

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Ask yourself if you want to be someone who dumbs life down, or do you want to be someone who opens yourself up for more spiritual energy, more intelligence, more emotion and more beauty?

Mark Kailing, PsyD Author