Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the podcast that takes these cold, dark,

January days and injects a little sunshine into your mind.

I'm Fern cotton and today, on my word, what a joyous experience we have for you.

It's the actor Natalie Dourmer. She of the Hunger Games, Game of Thrones,

picnic at Hanging Rock, and now Happy Place.

My craft is an internal process within me that helps me live with myself on a day-to-day basis

and explore this beautiful, joyful, also terrifying and scary, sometimes dark world that we live in.

For this episode of Happy Place, we partnered with Heritage by Julox.

Heritage Velvet Mat has a luxury, soft-to-touch paint finish that stands up to the demands of a busy, modern home.

Available in a beautifully timeless colour palette that allows us to fill our homes

with whichever rich feelings we please.

I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called Deep Ultra Marine right here.

Do you know the Lapis Lazuli Stone? It's like that.

A completely hypnotic blue that reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised whenever I'm by the sea on the South Coast.

It's got that gorgeous seaside feel to it, that deep sea feel to it.

Whenever I'm by the sea, I feel just so much calmer.

My nervous system, my physical body, just everything slows down a bit and feels less edgy.

And that means my thoughts stop racing. They're just at a slower pace and I feel like I can just manage with everything that bit better.

The sea has a huge effect on me.

So it will probably come as no surprise to you that I've got options.

I mean, they're going to paint my bedroom in this colour or my little tiny office where I write and do all of my happy place emails, etc.

So I think a deep ultra marine could really bring a sense of freedom but also adventure into my life.

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