Scott Mills: “Doing nothing is ok!” Stop feeling guilty for resting

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

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

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

How quickly does your social battery drain? Do you know what you need to do to recharge it? Broadcaster Scott Mills admits he’s worked too hard and not relaxed enough in the past, but that’s all changing now...

This episode is brought to you by British Airways Holidays, so Scott tells Fearne what he now does to take his holidays more seriously, including locking his phone away because – spoiler – nothing bad happens when you properly switch off from the world!

Scott has advice if you feel like it’s too late to meet the love of your life... He reflects on his recent wedding, as well as revealing how the grand gesture of a helicopter ride in the early days of dating nearly ruined the whole relationship! How would you cope if you felt a relationship was moving a little too fast, or too slow, for you...?

Plus, is it Fearne or Scott who reckons they were ‘The White Wine Queen’ during their chaotic Radio 1 days? They both think about when habitual drinking becomes problematic.

If you’re ready to take your holidays more seriously, head to BA.com/holidays

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, which today is brought to you by British Airways Holidays.
0:08.1	And I'm chatting to one of my absolute faves. It's Scott Mills.
0:12.2	I think sometimes my mind can veer towards negative rather than positive.
0:18.5	I mean, social anxiety, I get a lot now. And my social battery is low.
0:25.8	My head feels a bit full up with whatever's going on. And it's a well-trodden path. But the gym has really
0:33.4	helped me. When I first knew you, the only arm exercise I was doing was lifting a glass of
0:38.2	wine. Are any of you thinking, how the hell are we in late November? How the hell is it
0:43.3	nearly December? It's basically Christmas. This year has whizz. I know it's a very cliche thing to
0:48.8	say, but it's gone by so quickly, especially the bit between summer and now. That bit seems to have evaporated really quickly.
0:58.1	I don't know what's going on.
0:59.6	But whenever I feel time slipping away like this,
1:02.4	which can feel scary, I think we can all think,
1:04.4	oh, bloody oh, it's going too quick.
1:06.4	It forces me personally to be a bit more in the moment
1:10.3	and just not race ahead too far and think
1:15.1	about, oh my God, what's going on at Christmas and what's happening for New Year and what's going
1:18.4	to happen in January and what is the whole of 2025 going to look like and actually to go,
1:22.3	right, it's today. And in this very moment, I am feeling like this and the weather is like this and the clothes on my body feel like this.
1:31.4	That forces me to be a bit more present. So I'm hoping I can spend December really sinking into all those lovely Christmasy smells and feelings and not race too far ahead because it doesn't do any of us any good.
1:46.7	I think it panics us and freaks us out.
1:48.9	So if you're with me on that one, let's be in the moment together.
1:52.1	That's all we need to do right now.
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