Fearne says hello to intuitive exercise and goodbye to people pleasing
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
There’s a bit too much pressure on reaching an unwavering state of happiness isn’t there? It’s just not realistic. So Fearne’s going to be dropping into your feed every week for some candid nattering about what’s making her feel great, and what’s making her feel crap.
This is a cosy little corner for all of us to explore what’s been on our minds, what’s been getting us down, inspiring us, and making us laugh. Wanna join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
Today: what joyful little moments are getting Fearne and Team Happy Place through the grey winter, and what are we all leaving firmly in 2025?
In this chat, Fearne covers:
-The joy (or, maybe not) of finding your inner child through skipping
-Transitioning from being a gym-bunny to an intuitive exerciser
-Being constantly infantilised by others
-Reaching your gardening and electric blanket era
-How to deal with mansplaining
-A reminder for you to stop people pleasing, please
-Why treating yourself to a little gift is a very good idea
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| 0:00.0 | The disclaimer is, I love men. He said he doesn't have Instagram because he's got a garden to tend to, front and back. |
| 0:09.5 | Let's face it, for a lot of us, January is shit. |
| 0:13.0 | So what we're wanting to do is shed everything with the snake and get a fucking move on with this horse. |
| 0:17.9 | Because I was a kids TV presenter, I was infantilised for a very long time. |
| 0:23.8 | Do people eat gress in a sandwich? I don't know. I'm not massively on board with this one, |
| 0:28.6 | but apparently it's meant to make us take ourselves a bit less seriously. Enough is enough. |
| 0:34.7 | Don't sit there placating this person. Heated blankets are in and mansplaining is in the bin. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm not giving you advice like I'm some fucking guru. I'm saying this to myself. I need to hear this more than anyone. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello everyone. This is very exciting. This is the first of a brand new kind of episode that's going to be dropping in |
| 0:57.7 | your feed every week because there's too much emphasis on we must find our happy place. I think most |
| 1:05.6 | of us are somewhere in the middle trying to figure it out. So this is a gorgeous little safe space where we |
| 1:11.6 | can get curious about whether we feel happy or not. Anything goes. And today I'm going to be |
| 1:18.4 | chatting about what is making me and team happy place feel happy and what is not during this |
| 1:25.9 | quite miserable grey month. |
| 1:28.1 | One of them, you might not be expecting this, is skipping. |
| 1:32.2 | Okay, so Basil, who works on Team Happy Place, is smirky in the corner. |
| 1:39.0 | Not into skipping? |
| 1:40.4 | I'm not even talking about skipping with a rope. |
| 1:42.5 | I'm talking about how kids skip. So skipping instead of walking. I'm not even talking about skipping with a rope. I'm talking about like how kids skip. So skipping |
| 1:45.5 | instead of walking. I'm not massively on board with this one, but apparently it's meant to |
| 1:50.7 | make us feel childlike, joyful, make us take ourselves a bit less seriously. I think I've got |
| 1:58.4 | a bit of a hang up with this one because for years, because I was a kids TV |
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