Ruby Wax
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Have you noticed yourself repeating negative patterns of behaviour throughout your life? Comedian and best-selling author Ruby Wax has become aware she was doing this in order to feel safe after a tumultuous childhood.
In this chat with Fearne, Ruby acknowledges that her depression will most likely always come back, but working to understand it means she has the tools to cope a little better each time it does. They also talk about why it’s so important for mental health that we allow people to be multi-faceted humans.
Ruby’s book, I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place, lovely to have you here. |
| 0:04.2 | This is the show where we step into the lives of others for just a few minutes |
| 0:08.5 | in order to really see things a little differently. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Fern Cotton and today we meet the comedian who became a psychotherapist. |
| 0:16.4 | It is of course the remarkable Ruby Wax. |
| 0:19.4 | Okay, every part of your body is fighting you. |
| 0:21.4 | It's going to come on you idiot. What are you focusing on this for? |
| 0:24.2 | But gradually like pain doesn't stay in the same place. |
| 0:27.4 | It moves around. |
| 0:29.2 | If you've ever wondered how all of this mindfulness works, |
| 0:32.3 | the science behind it all, this is the episode for you. |
| 0:36.2 | For this episode of Happy Place, we partnered with Heritage by Julux. |
| 0:40.6 | Heritage Velvet Mat has a luxury soft touch paint finish |
| 0:46.0 | that stands up to the demands of a busy modern home. |
| 0:49.5 | Available in a beautifully timeless colour palette that allows us to fill our homes |
| 0:55.0 | with whichever rich feelings we please. |
| 0:58.3 | I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called Deep Ultra Marine right here. |
| 1:07.3 | Do you know the Lapis Lezouli Stone? |
| 1:11.1 | It's like that. |
| 1:12.3 | A completely hypnotic blue that reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised |
| 1:20.1 | whenever I buy the sea on the South Coast. |
| 1:22.5 | It's got that gorgeous seaside feel to it, that deep sea feel to it. |
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