Overthinking is my demon! Erin Doherty on changing old behaviour patterns
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Do you constantly replay conversations, wondering if you said the wrong thing? You’re in good company; actor Erin Doherty’s biggest demon is overthinking.
In this chat, Fearne and Erin explore how fearful cancel culture has made us all, as well as how to have the courage to speak your mind, even if it means being disliked.
Erin has an unapologetic attitude towards ambition, and explains why she wants to see more queer characters on screen. Plus, how do you feel about long-distance relationships? Erin and her girlfriend tried it for a while...
Fearne and Erin also bond over their love of the Kardashians.
You can watch Erin in A Thousand Blows on Disney+ from January 9th.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Happy New Year. Oh my God, why does 2026 sound futuristic? I can't get my tongue around it. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that stops the overthinking and gets everything out in the open. |
| 0:17.8 | Today, I'm chatting to Erin Doherty. Every experience is tinged with your approach because that's the very first note and, like, colour of the canvas almost. |
| 0:28.4 | So actually, if you saw out your head before approaching anything, that's the general theme that will then seep into the rainbow that ensues. |
| 0:37.1 | And you've always got that ability to just put the brakes on and go, |
| 0:40.5 | are these feelings old stuff that I'm bringing to the forefront |
| 0:43.8 | because we're creatures of habit and our brains are always lovely and trying to protect us, |
| 0:48.5 | but is it just old stuff that I'm bringing to the plate that is not actually of use to me anymore. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a new year. Hey, how are you feeling about that? I never know how I feel about this time of |
| 0:58.4 | year. I mean, if you're listening to this in the UK, January, I was about to say January and February, |
| 1:03.7 | but really it's January, February, March, April, sometimes May. The weather is absolute dog shit. |
| 1:09.8 | So we have to really buckle up and get ready to |
| 1:13.6 | quite literally weather those months. And there's not necessarily the option to just sink into |
| 1:20.1 | coziness like we could before Christmas for some reason. It feels like we're meant to be like |
| 1:23.8 | super motivated to do everything. But many of us are still just feeling that post-Christmas |
| 1:30.0 | lethargy and we can't quite get into gear. Look, I feel like that. I just think don't worry about it. |
| 1:37.6 | What are we in a rush to do and achieve? Let's just ease our way in. It's a new year. I definitely saying that do want to shed some old |
| 1:49.3 | skin from 2025. I feel quite strongly about that this year that I want to enter this year |
| 1:56.8 | with a little less to carry. I want to get rid of the things I know aren't working for me, |
| 2:05.6 | simplify things and really lean into the stuff that makes me feel good. That's about as far as I'm |
| 2:12.0 | going to go with any kind of New Year's resolution. Now, this chat I was particularly looking |
| 2:17.0 | forward to because I'd actually |
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