One Thing with Matt Coyne on why moaning is just fine
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Matt's advice to parents all around the globe is ...'Complain! Its fine, its healthy, its good. In fact.. I reckon its vital.'
Follow Matt on Instagram here.
Matt's incredible debut novel, Frank and Red is out now and you can get your copy here.
Man vs Baby’s Matt Coyne is from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In September 2015, Matt’s life was turned upside down by the arrival of his son Charlie. After three months of parenthood, he logged on to social media and wrote about his experience of having to live with ‘a furious, sleep-murdering, unstable and incontinent, breasts-obsessed midget lodger’.
Alongside Frank and Red, Matt has written two Sunday Times bestselling books based on his parental triumphs and disasters, the first entitled: ‘Dummy’ and the second ‘Man vs Toddler’.
He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph and GQ Magazine and is the current Vuelio Parenting Influencer of the Year and Blogosphere Parent Influencer of the Year.
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| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to The Therapy Edit with me psych therapist mom of three and author Anna Martha |
| 0:37.0 | every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope you enjoy it. Hi everyone, welcome to you today's guest episode of the therapy edit. |
| 0:58.0 | I have with me today, Matt Coyne of Man versus Baby. So Matt, a bit about Man. I actually discovered Matt years and years ago. When did you, |
| 1:08.0 | Matt, when did you start sharing bits on Facebook? |
| 1:10.7 | When Charlie was born pretty much, so 2015, 2016. |
| 1:15.0 | Do you know what? |
| 1:16.0 | That is why? |
| 1:17.0 | Because my son was born at the end of 2014. |
| 1:19.7 | So we must have been kind of in the thick of it and then I had my second son in 2016 so we must have been in the thick of it. |
| 1:26.1 | It was a nappy stage and I think it was so it was a really long Instagram no Facebook post and it was all about, I don't know if you're an aeroplane or something, |
| 1:36.2 | it was about a nappy change and it just totally unraveled and it was hilarious and it was so relatable |
| 1:41.1 | and I think I followed you from that point so it's actually been many many years that I followed you |
| 1:47.3 | and just your humor really enjoy your honesty about parenting and fatherhood |
| 1:54.8 | but for those who don't don't know you if they've been living under a rock I'm going to share your a little buyer that I've got |
| 1:58.8 | here about you so Matt is from Sheffield he lives in South Yorkshire with his partner Lindsay, |
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