MINIPOD: Reevaluating Post Depression with Fearne Cotton
Angela Scanlon's Thanks A Million
Angela Scanlon
4.8 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On Mental Health Awareness week, Fearne explores her ‘Thank You, Next’, a time which changed the course of her working life leading her to create the wildly popular Happy Place. Mental Health is something Fearne regularly talks around with other people but not often about her own particular experience.
Here, she opens up about the difficult career decisions made and the good things that have come from the struggles with her mental health as she says Thank you, Next...
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good morning. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Angela Scanlon and welcome to the Thanks A Million Mini Pods. |
| 0:09.3 | Whilst we're waiting for series four and a mountain of new thank yous, |
| 0:12.2 | I thought we'd revisit the Thank You Next chapter of some of our guest's lives |
| 0:16.0 | to remind us that we've got this. |
| 0:18.6 | Now, I love asking people about the thank you next because it's all |
| 0:21.1 | about silver linings searching for the lesson in the shit heap, so to speak. It's, you know, when |
| 0:33.2 | something's gone hideously wrong or a period of your life that you'd really rather forget about, |
| 0:37.8 | but actually when you start to dig around and look at it a little more deeply, |
| 0:43.5 | you can find something quite valuable in it. |
| 0:47.3 | At least that's the vibe. |
| 0:49.7 | Please don't forget to subscribe so that you will get all the Thank You Next minipods as soon as they're |
| 0:54.5 | released plus you'll be the first to know when series four of Thanks a Million drops, which by the way is soon. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, soonish. This week's Thank you Next is from Fern Cotton. Broadcaster extraordinaire, author and host of the phenomenally popular happy place. |
| 1:13.3 | Fern Cotton is someone we all know and love. Her Sunday Times bestseller, Speak Your Truth is out now and it is gorgeous. |
| 1:20.8 | She speaks and has done for many, many years, very openly about mental health and it is, of course, something which most of us will have become even more conscious of during this past year with the pandemic which has been a bit of a slog let's be honest so even if you weren't aware acutely or otherwise of your old noggin I'm sure you will be, or at least you'll be aware of close friends or family |
| 1:46.8 | or people who may be struggling. And if you're struggling, know that you don't have to do it on |
| 1:52.8 | your own. Often it feels like a very isolating place to be. Pick up the phone. Talk to somebody that |
| 1:59.1 | you trust. Say it out loud, speak your fears out loud. |
| 2:03.1 | Sometimes the hardest thing is to start that conversation, text somebody when you're feeling |
| 2:09.5 | in the depth so that you can hide from it the following morning. Normalise talking about your |
| 2:13.7 | struggles, which is I think something that Fern does really, really brilliantly. |
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