Episode 107: Laura Lee Dockrill
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Laura Lee Dockrill is an author of both adult and children's books. She went to Brit School, she's married to the love of her life, musician Hugo White, and her best friend is Adele.
After giving birth to her son Jet, Laura suffered severe postpartum depression which saw her waking up alone in a psychiatric ward on her first Mother's Day. One of her books based on her experience is called What Have I Done?
She also has a new children's picture book out next year called Gray. It's about depression and illustrated by Lauren Child.
Laura is positive and funny and lovable and it is such a joy to see her recovered and happy while still able to share her experiences, which I know will go on to help the 1 in 1,000 new mothers who also suffer from postpartum psychosis.
Trigger warning for references to suicidal thoughts
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.4 | so I spin a few plates myself being a |
| 0:22.6 | mother can be the most amazing thing but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own |
| 0:27.2 | ambitions I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything welcome to spinning plates |
| 0:35.1 | so my dear listener this is a very significant moment in my life. |
| 0:42.2 | I've just this morning taken my youngest one to school for the first time. |
| 0:47.9 | And honestly, I walked out with a pep in my step. |
| 0:51.5 | I don't know if I was waiting to see if I would feel a bit weird. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, oh, my baby's dying school. |
| 0:59.4 | And I was like, this is a milestone, |
| 1:02.7 | and I've achieved something, and I'm happy about it. |
| 1:05.2 | He went in a bit wobbly, |
| 1:07.0 | and then I could see through the window after it dropped him off. |
| 1:10.2 | He was fine, and I feel like, yeah, okay. |
| 1:12.9 | Fifth and final installment of Jones Boy has started school. Great. What a moment. And then in the nice juxtapositions that can |
| 1:20.2 | happen in life, it's nice, just, you know, a contrast. Last night, my eldest boy, Sunny, who's 19, told me he's just finished packing his first box ready to move out. |
| 1:34.2 | And I don't know. |
| 1:36.8 | It's obviously I'm going to really miss having Sunny under my roof, but I do feel overwhelmingly that he's making the right move now. |
| 1:44.7 | I think it's good for him and I think he's ready and I think he's excited. |
| 1:49.3 | And I saw an Instagram post the other day and it said something like, |
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