“Feel it, process it, move on!” Mary Earps: How to find gratitude after hardship
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Do you trust your gut to make the best decision for yourself? Former England goalkeeper Mary Earps has had to make some bold, brave choices recently.
In this chat with Fearne, Mary explains how she knew retiring from international football was right for her, and they both explore the importance of having different chapters and challenges in your life.
Having experienced periods of real mental darkness, Mary talks through the practices that now ground her in the present. She also reckons setting life goals might just be setting you up for disappointment. Should we be focusing on progress, instead of perfection? Mary has advice on how to be ok with not being good at everything!
Plus, Mary recalls the euphoric day the Lionesses won the 2022 EUROs, and reflects on the emotional impact it’s had on women across the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a massive welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that knows |
| 0:06.4 | hardship often leads to growth. Today, I'm chatting to Mary Earps. People will sometimes |
| 0:12.2 | say, like, if it feels dark, put a light on. It's not as simple as that. Sometimes I need to |
| 0:15.8 | sit in the darkness. I need to allow myself to feel. Don't tell me that I don't feel that way. |
| 0:20.5 | Don't tell yourself, oh, you're not sad. |
| 0:22.0 | Get on with it. |
| 0:22.5 | There's other people out there who have a worse life than you, Mary. |
| 0:25.4 | Your life isn't that hard. |
| 0:26.3 | Look at all the amazing things. |
| 0:27.6 | It's just, okay, I feel this way. |
| 0:30.0 | That is valid. |
| 0:31.1 | Why do I feel that way? |
| 0:32.1 | Process it, feel it, and then I can move on from it. Anyone else overwhelmed? Put your hand up. I'm putting two up. Oh my goodness. |
| 0:40.8 | What is going on? Especially, I don't know, if you've got kids, I'm finding this last term |
| 0:45.1 | of school before the summer holidays insane. How many sports days and swimming gala's and |
| 0:51.2 | assemblies and summer fairs and all that jazz are we attending i mean i might as |
| 0:56.7 | will literally go to school every day with my kids and just stay there um and also i'm just having |
| 1:01.0 | you know when everything in your house home breaks at the same time so my dishwasher's not working |
| 1:08.0 | my car wouldn't charge all weekend and And also, oh, this isn't like |
| 1:12.0 | something breaking, but my kids are fostering a poor baby bird that my cat's attacked and we |
| 1:21.1 | are trying to keep it alive. And we're going to call the, is it RSPPB? |
| 1:27.7 | Is that the one I'm thinking of? |
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