I still get triggered! Fearne on how to heal, cope with hangxiety, and having an empty nest
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Fearne isn’t a massive fan of the relentless pressure to reach a definitive state of happiness. It’s just not realistic, so she’s dropping into your feed every week for some chat about what’s making her – and you! – feel great, and what’s making us feel completely crap.
This is the cosy corner where there’s no judgement allowed! All of us can explore what’s been on our minds, what’s been getting us down, inspiring us, and making us laugh. Want to join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
In this chat, Fearne covers:
-Why walks are the best for deep and meaningfuls
-Going clubbing and feeling 18 again
-Why you’re only ever as happy as your unhappiest child
-How to make the ‘sexiest salad’ ever (according to Fearne)
-Coping with The Fear that comes with a hangover
-A plea to stop chatting on speakerphone on the train
-How to say goodbye to your child when they leave home
-Dealing with triggers when you’re trying to heal
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| 0:00.0 | What was I thinking? This is the sexiest thing you've ever seen. What I was thinking was, the sun's out, Ryland's coming over, I'm going to drink shitloads of tequila. Anxiety can go in the bin. We had this sort of like sanity saving walk last Friday night after dinner. And he got a bit emotional and said, I'm going to go now. And I was like, yep, love you. |
| 0:21.0 | And my throat was kind of cracking. |
| 0:22.7 | And I think it's so tricky to stay on your path of getting better when you're pulled back. |
| 0:28.8 | And he walked out the door and I shut the door and cried for about half an hour. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. |
| 0:37.4 | How are you all? Today, we're going to go through our likes and our dislikes. |
| 0:42.4 | So, Mills, have I got chocolate on my mouth? |
| 0:45.3 | No. Okay, good. Because I've just had a hot chocolate. That's going on my making me happy list. |
| 0:50.7 | There is nothing better than a hot chocolate. Heaven. I'll tell you why I drunk that in a |
| 0:55.2 | minute, not just yet though. What's making me feel happy? Well, one thing that's making me feel really |
| 1:00.9 | happy is going for very specifically an after-dinner walk, which we can do. Now it's light, |
| 1:07.6 | late. In the winter, I couldn't think of anything worse. I am hibernating from 4pm. |
| 1:12.6 | But at this time of year, me and my daughter are going for post-dinner walks and it is the highlight of my day. |
| 1:20.1 | We had this sort of like sanity saving walk last Friday night after dinner. And it was a perfect golden sunset where the light like she's got bright red hair |
| 1:30.1 | and it was sort of illuminating her hair like fire it was so beautiful and I think also if you've got |
| 1:35.8 | kids and sometimes you find it hard to get anything out of them like on the school run the way back |
| 1:41.1 | from school here's me I'm driving. How's school, kids? |
| 1:45.0 | Guys, how's school? Huh? Yeah, it was alright. What happened? Don't know. What do you mean you don't know? You've just been. Like, tell me one good thing that happened. I can't remember. Like anything? What did you eat for lunch? I I know? Was it pasta? I don't know. |
| 2:01.0 | Like, it's like pulling teeth. You get nothing at all. |
| 2:04.0 | But something about going on a walk, not necessarily just with your kids, but even with a mate, |
| 2:09.4 | where just things start to naturally unfold. |
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