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Happy Mum

Jake & Hannah Graf

Happy Mum

Giovanna Fletcher

Keira Knightley, Co-parenting, Postnatal Depression, Kate Middleton, Hormones, Sex, Celebrity, Personal Journals, Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Giovanna Fletcher, Emma Willis, Mrs Hinch, Breastfeeding, Maternal Mental Health, Pregnancy, Parenting, Matrescence

4.85.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Gi meets a couple The Guardian have named “The UK’s most influential LGBT Power Couple.” Captain Hannah Graf MBE is an Officer of the British Army serving with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. In 2013 she came out as a transgender woman and became one of the highest-ranking transgender soldiers within the British Army. Jake Graf is an award-winning director, writer and actor known for his roles in ’The Danish Girl' and ‘Colette’', ’. After meeting in 2015, last year they welcomed their first child into the world.

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0:00.0

This is an advertisement for Better Help Therapy Online.

0:03.6

Better Help is therapy online that has served over 3 million people worldwide,

0:08.3

and now they're heading to the UK.

0:11.7

Now, I often wish that being human came with a user manual,

0:16.8

something to tell us what to do when times get difficult or emotionally hard.

0:21.3

If I could just turn to a page when things happen and sort my life out that way,

0:25.8

wouldn't that be a blessing?

0:28.2

However, going into motherhood, I did have lots of books that were telling me how

0:34.4

motherhood would play out, what to do with my baby, and actually they just confused me.

0:38.1

And because what I really realised is that not one thing fits all,

0:42.9

and that is the same with our mental health.

0:45.7

And that is why therapy is so amazing, the fact that we've got therapy to lean on when times

0:53.7

get difficult to vocalise those thoughts, those feelings.

0:57.8

It's vital, actually, and I know that the podcast came out of this feeling of failure in motherhood,

1:03.6

but in large part it is almost therapy.

1:06.5

It feels like a therapy session every time we leave the studio or I leave a conversation.

1:11.6

That is so important because so many people are suffering with their mental health,

1:15.2

because they feel locked in with those feelings, locked in and unable to see past them.

1:21.3

And therapy is proven to help.

1:24.6

Now, if you're thinking of giving therapy a try, better help is a great option.

1:29.4

It's therapy online via video, phone or message chat, so you don't even have to see anyone on camera

1:35.9

if you don't want to.

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