"Get comfortable with people not liking you!" Florence Given on embracing the cringe
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Do you cringe at other people’s joy? Author and illustrator Florence Given reckons cringing at others is telling you something about how you feel about yourself...
In this chat Fearne and Florence get into how to really start living unapologetically as your full delicious self. Cringing at others might be showing you’re a bit pissed off that someone else is able to do something you want permission to.
Florence explains how anxiety from being bullied at school kick-started her questioning everything the world was telling her. Why do I have to be ‘pretty’? Why am I ‘too much’? Why do I care about being liked?
You can’t let other people shrink your self-expression; Florence talks Fearne through how to not take comments and opinions personally. Plus, why resting feels like such a radical thing to do...
Florence’s book, Women Living Deliciously, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show that helps you find your lust for life. |
| 0:09.0 | And today I'm chatting to Florence Given. |
| 0:11.3 | When I dance online or whatever, to other women that fucking love expressing themselves, |
| 0:16.7 | they see that and they go, that's brilliant. |
| 0:18.4 | Or to women who maybe don't have that courage, but know they want to, they take it as a permission slip to step over that line. |
| 0:24.6 | To me, cringing, it's just this social enforced barrier. |
| 0:28.4 | So when you hop on social media or you're in public and you see a woman, without those same lines that confine you, |
| 0:35.3 | something in you gets pissed off that she gives herself permission to do it. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello everyone, properly. How are you? Do you know what I've spent the morning doing? |
| 0:43.2 | Hand washing, like I'm in the Victorian era. My washing machine's broken. And do you know what? I realized. |
| 0:49.8 | I take that little baby for granted. I chuckle the washing in there, you know, literally five |
| 0:54.8 | loads a day because I've got kids. Without it, my life's falling apart. I don't know what to do. |
| 1:00.6 | So today, desperate measures because the guy can't come for four days, I'm hand washing. |
| 1:07.4 | It takes forever. It's awful. So let's just pause and take a moment for the humble washing machine. |
| 1:15.3 | And if you're feeling a bit crap today, just feel grateful for your washing machine because without them, we are stuffed. |
| 1:23.3 | Now, in unrelated matters, if you are on the internet, I'm pretty sure you will have seen Florence's incredible online world. You can't miss it. It is so colourful and bright and pink and gorgeous. She's so outwardly expressive of her internal world. She's an illustrator. I love her drawings. A bestselling author and an award-winning podcaster too. Women Living |
| 1:45.7 | Deliciously is the name of her latest book and it's all about living a life by your own design, |
| 1:50.9 | which I am a very here for. Oh, do you know the things that really stick out in this conversation, |
| 1:56.7 | one of them being the topic of cringe. I think we're so allergic to cringe. |
| 2:03.6 | And I hate it when we sort of point to others and go, |
| 2:05.6 | oh my God, cringe or ick. |
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