Ella Mills: Victim mentality, apathy, and fad diets
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do you think of yourself as a victim of circumstance? Ella Mills – the founder of Deliciously Ella – used to live with a sense that life was unfair to her. Now, she knows that ultimately the only person in charge of your life is you.
In this chat with Fearne, Ella talks about realising apathy was a symptom of depression, and explains why sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to acknowledge what needs to change.
Ella and Fearne also talk about why the way we eat has become so emotive and divisive. They reckon we should be focusing on sharing joyful knowledge that will make us all healthier and more energetic, so chat through some simple ways to feel good about what you’re eating.
Ella’s latest recipe book, Healthy Made Simple, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and this is the show that helps you pinpoint what matters to you. |
| 0:07.2 | Today I'm chatting to Ella Mills. I hadn't wanted to take any personal |
| 0:12.4 | responsibility for where it was and it's not that being |
| 0:15.2 | ill was my fault but I lived with the sense of it's not fair so I definitely had quite a kind of victim |
| 0:22.0 | mentality ultimately the only So I definitely had quite a kind of victim mentality, |
| 0:23.7 | ultimately the only person in charge of your life as you. |
| 0:27.2 | I think learning the more we can internalize the solution |
| 0:30.6 | and the idea that us and us alone are in charge of the outcome of our life. |
| 0:35.8 | It was really realizing that and that ultimately it had become so clear that no one else could |
| 0:40.0 | do anything. |
| 0:41.0 | Ella's an award-winning cookery author and the founder of |
| 0:44.3 | deliciously Ella. She's launched over a hundred plant-based food products into |
| 0:49.2 | over 10,000 shops across the UK and she has a restaurant in London called |
| 0:54.8 | Plants too. She's been on the show before and we did a deep exploration of her |
| 0:59.2 | backstory then but today I wanted to catch up on where she's at now, both in terms of her personal life |
| 1:06.2 | and really importantly where she feels we're at as a society when it comes to food. |
| 1:12.0 | We seem to be in this really strange and |
| 1:14.8 | slightly concerning point where we're forcing ourselves into defined food |
| 1:19.0 | camps. We have to sort of swear allegiance to a particular way of eating |
| 1:23.5 | which I think then breeds a lot of judgment from other people |
| 1:27.2 | and create sort of barriers and divisiveness and what it's doing is it's stopping us coming together to share knowledge and to |
| 1:35.7 | swap ideas and to enjoy food. I think we're realizing that we're just all trying |
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