Hello Fern Cotton here. I know you might be expecting an episode of Happy Place, but I've got

something a little bit different for you and hopefully it's exciting for you as well.

You've probably heard me mention a couple of times over the last few months that I've

been writing a book. Well, that book has now been written. It's called Bigger Than Us and

it looks at that concept of what that might be. What is bigger than us? Or, you know,

you don't believe in something that is big than us. You're also welcome along. But if

you do and you're not religious and you haven't got a name for it or a particular infrastructure

for that belief, that's what I'm looking at. I'm also taking a look at wellness. We now

know that it's a good idea to look after our bodies and our minds, but what about the

other bit? I don't believe that we're just a body and just a mind. I believe there's

something else going on. Use whatever language you're comfortable with in this context.

I use the word soul, but you might want to use the word energy, spirit, essence, whatever

it is. How do we look after that bit of ourselves? That's what this book is all about. I talked

to amazing wise minds, expansive thinkers, experts about loads of different subject matters

that essentially give us some tools to have a connection with ourselves, the people around

us, the world around us and that's something bigger.

My hopes for the book with the topics can calm the anxiety that we might feel through

connection, help us find happiness through purpose, help us feel some comfort in the universal

and also just generally thinking bigger to unlock ourselves and our full potential. I weave

in a couple of my own stories here and there, good and bad, you know what I'm like, I'm

as honest as can be and I want this to be massively relatable. It doesn't need to be full

of jargon or for an exclusive club of people talking about whether you want to call it spirituality

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