Hello and welcome to Happy Place. My name's Fern Cotton and this is the show which

Well feels more necessary than ever a space for positivity a space to grow a little

I know this because I've been reading your lovely reviews

Karen D says I cannot tell you how much of a lie on your podcast

I work in the prison service so these help my sanity so much

Karen I really appreciate you taking the time to write that and I am so glad that the

podcast are helping you out and they're giving you a little bit of joy. I really appreciate your

comment. Thanks Karen. Miss Katty Kin says such an eclectic array of courageous individuals

love it. Thank you Katty Kinz you know what we work really hard to try and find brilliant people

from all walks of life with varying stories different backgrounds and I'm glad that you've

noted that. Thank you and so much love for some of our most recent guests in particular a lot of love

for Flow Perry and also of course Rio and Kate Ferdinand. Joe Wicks who of course is doing all

of his kids workouts at the moment which we've been doing which is so much fun if you haven't heard

those episodes do go back and check them out. Today though I think we all need a bit of joy

so we're bringing out the big guns back by popular demand it's my mate Russell Brand. Our own

suffering and our own pain is inviting us to step beyond what we believe is important and in my

experience that's been a bloody painful journey and one I recognize I'm still at the beginning

of continually letting go of things continually letting go of like the things I think I need to be okay

been willing to accept reality on its own terms right oh this has happened now so now your

reality is you're not going out your reality is these events are cancelled that work is cancelled

that ain't happening you know like again you know people are experiencing much more radical

versions of this but for all of us Eckhart Hall would say the Buddhist would say the ultimate

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