#200 Poorna Bell: In Search Of Silence, Not Self-Help

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Poorna Bell is award-winning journalist of 15 years and a digital expert having worked as UK Exec Editor and Global Lifestyle Head for Huffington Post. She currently writes for Grazia, The iPaper, The Guardian, Red magazine, and Stylist. She was recently named one of Balance magazine’s top 100 wellness personalities, a Stylist magazine Rising Star, a judge for the Mind Media Awards and British Book Awards, plus so much more.

Her debut non-fiction book Chase The Rainbow (Simon & Schuster) came out last year; a moving memoir about how Poorna's life was affected —but not defined—by the suicide of her husband Rob. Ariana Huffington said about the book: ‘Chase the Rainbow is a game-changing book. Poorna Bell’s moving account of the pressures on modern men could be a life-saver." Poorna's second book In Search Of Silence is out now, all about her deeply personal journey which asks us all to define what 'happiness' truly means to each of us. In this episode we discuss the inspiration behind this second memoir, her wariness of self-help books, and what she's learned along the way.

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete.
1:06.4	My guest today is the brilliant Perna Bell.
1:09.0	She is an award-winning journalist of 15 years experience having previously worked as the UK
1:15.6	exec editor and global lifestyle head of the Huffington Post. She now currently
1:21.0	writes for Gratzia The I Paper Paper, The Guardian, Red Magazine, Stylist and many more.
1:27.0	She was recently named one of Balance magazine's top 100 wellness personalities, and Stylist magazine this year named her a rising star and
1:35.7	she's been a judge for mind she has been a judge at the British Book Awards and so much
1:41.8	more her debut book Chase the Rainbow British Book
1:43.4	Chase the Rainbow came out last year and it had a huge positive response.
1:48.9	It's an honest yet uplifting account of Perna's life affected by the suicide of her husband Rob.
1:57.2	It's an incredible sad but honest look at modernculinity and talks about mental health in a way that makes a vital
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