Craig David

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Unrelenting positivity isn’t always healthy. Over a career spanning decades, best-selling artist Craig David has learnt that sometimes it’s best to lean into pain in order to validate how you’re feeling. In this chat with Fearne, Craig explains why his desire to people please was ultimately hurting him, and explores the childhood experiences that led to an addiction to exercise.

Craig’s book, published by Happy Place Books, is called What’s Your Vibe: Tuning Into Your Best Life, and it’s out on October 6th.

His new album, 22, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the show that embraces every emotion you could
0:06.4	possibly think of. I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Craig David.
0:11.6	I've learned that actually our bodies and our minds and our souls is that
0:15.9	our neutrinity. We're all moving in one. I have empathy for people who are in pain now.
0:20.8	I have real understanding of what depression is and I could see why the
0:26.0	suicide rates and why people make those decisions when it's pain or
0:30.2	mentally they can't control the situation. It's an expire. I have empathy now.
0:34.6	I understand. I've known Craig for decades pretty much since his music career
0:38.7	began. He's obviously one of the best selling UK artists of all time but it's
0:43.7	so interesting how he's now reflecting on the fact that his incredible success
0:48.2	actually left very little space for anything but unrelenting positivity and as
0:53.3	we discuss trying to find the positive in every situation isn't always the
0:59.1	healthiest thing to do. Sometimes we need to be able to lean into sadness or
1:04.5	anger or pain or whatever it might be in order to validate our feelings and
1:09.1	then move through them. He's written a fantastic book called What Your Vibe
1:13.5	which I'm very proud to say we at Happy Place Books have published and it
1:19.7	includes all the brilliant life lessons he's learned. Oh and by the way there's a
1:23.1	very very exciting Happy Place project a new Happy Place project coming this
1:30.6	Wednesday. It's just brilliantly exciting I'm bursting to share what the news is
1:37.3	but you're going to have to wait till Wednesday but it's finally happening. I'll
1:41.6	leave you with that little teaser. This episode of Happy Place is brought to you
1:46.4	by Dyson and their special edition of Vincoblue and Rose Hair Care
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