Poorna Bell

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

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

4.7 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When Poorna discovered her husband's heroin addiction, she described it as an earthquake. What followed next was unimaginable and now, several years' later, she tells Fearne about her experiences and how she has come to terms with them.

Trigger warning: contains references to suicide.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the podcast where I, Fern Cotton, meet people who have lived
0:06.8	extraordinary lives and dealt with some pretty heavy situations. This week is no exception,
0:12.9	as we meet journalist and writer Paul Nebel. Knowing what I now know about depression,
0:18.9	especially that kind of depression that begins in childhood, there were so many questions
0:24.4	I should have asked him about it and I didn't. A word of warning, as we occasionally do
0:29.8	on this series, there's a discussion of suicide and in this case what happened to the people
0:35.2	caught in its aftermath? If that's something that's not going to help you at this time, feel
0:40.2	free to pause the show and come back to it when you're in a better place.
0:46.0	Okay, you're still with me. Paul Nebel is a wonderful, inspiring woman and I can't wait to
0:52.4	introduce you to her. For this episode of Happy Place, we partnered with Heritage by Julox.
0:58.0	Heritage Velvet Mat has a luxury, soft touch paint finish that stands up to the demands of a busy
1:05.6	modern home, available in a beautifully timeless colour palette that allows us to fill our homes
1:12.4	with whichever rich feelings we please. I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called
1:21.2	Deep Ultra Marine right here. Do you know the Lapis Lazuli Stone? It's like that, a completely
1:31.2	hypnotic blue that reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised whenever I'm by the sea on the
1:39.2	south coast. It's got that gorgeous seaside feel to it, that deep sea feel to it. Whenever I'm
1:47.3	by the sea, I feel just so much calmer. My nervous system, my physical body, just everything
1:55.5	slows down a bit and feels less edgy and that means my thoughts stop racing. They're just at a
2:02.0	slower pace and I feel like I can just manage with everything that bit better. The sea has a huge
2:10.2	effect on me. So it will probably come as no surprise to you that I've got options. I mean, they're
2:16.2	going to paint my bedroom in this colour or my little tiny office where I write and do all of my
2:22.8	happy place emails etc. So I think a deep ultra marine could really bring a sense of freedom but
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