Pandora Sykes

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What if all the work we're doing on ourselves is part of the problem? Pandora Sykes has been wrestling with our obsession with wellness to see if we're taking it all a bit too seriously - and in this chat with Fearne, they chat about the simple principles we can remember to keep ourselves grounded.

How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? by Pandora Sykes is published by Hutchinson

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place where we explore the hidden depths in all of us, one chat at a time.
0:08.5	I'm Fern Cotton and today we're dialing up writer and journalist Pandora Sykes.
0:14.2	I think what can be really dangerous about wellness is that there's nothing wrong and I can't stress that enough.
0:19.3	There's nothing wrong with doing yoga if it makes you feel good.
0:22.4	Going in the cryo chamber or the flotation device or forest bathing or gong bathing or all those things,
0:28.2	nothing is wrong with those things.
0:30.5	But when they're marketed as something that will make you a better person or make your life better,
0:35.2	I think that's really irresponsible.
0:37.1	Pandora has a brilliant book with a title I think about every day.
0:40.9	It's called How do we know we are doing it right?
0:44.4	The spoiler?
0:45.7	We don't.
0:46.7	But it's a lot of fun exploring what that means for a good 40 minutes together.
0:51.7	And I really hope that you get something from that too.
0:54.1	Lots of burning questions from me.
0:56.2	This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett on a mission to help us all listen to our gut feeling.
1:03.2	I think we've all been there at some point.
1:05.6	Grumbly tummy feeling full all the time constipated.
1:10.1	But we're all too embarrassed to talk about it aren't we?
1:13.3	We really don't need to be though.
1:15.3	Well, there's a place on your high street that you can go to for help.
1:18.9	Holland and Barrett experts are there to be a friendly ear, always ready to listen and help us get to know our gut a little bit better.
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