Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that helps you

prioritise yourself. Today I'm chatting to Natalie Lou. We have these people please of feelings.

Anxiety, resentment, guilt, irritation, frustration, feeling low, helpless, powerless, overloaded,

overwhelmed. Those feelings tell us that we said yes to something, that for all

intents and purposes is a good thing, but we've done it for the wrong reasons. I always say

if you don't say yes authentically, you say it resentfully, fearfully or avoidantly, and that leads

to more problems than if you just said no in the first place. So guys, welcome to my messy world today. I just want to remind you all

that we're living through absolute mess always. And even when things look shiny and perfect on

Instagram, they're bloody well not. I woke up this morning at half four because my daughter got in

the bed with me. She was sucking her thumb really loudly in my ear and I couldn't get back to sleep.

Five, I ended up getting out of bed because my brain was just racing and I thought I can't listen

to this bullshit anymore. I'm going to get out. When I say bullshit, I mean the thoughts in my head,

not my daughter next to me. I was just like, my head's being mad. Got up. Simon, one of my cats, and puked everywhere, Frank had a mouse. It was alive running

around and he was sort of kicking it. So I had to grab a teetow, grab the mouse, try and put it

back out in the garden. I think it's absolute chaos. Then my son tells me he's got an exam this

morning when he wakes up. He needs a clear pencil

case, a protractor, and a raisable pen, a pencil rubber and pencil sharpener, all of which apparently

he doesn't own. Cut to me. Texting my neighbours, begging people in the local area for a bloody

protractor. Oh my God, I'm absolutely exhausted, but I know many of you will meet me there

in that place of complete burnout from just the small little moments of life that wear us down.

But look, we're in this together and we can do this. And today someone's going to help us.

She's called Natalie. And she's a brilliant writer, speaker, artist and founder of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world.

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