“Self-care isn’t selfish!” How to keep fit and have fun
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Fearne’s been loving the UEFA Women’s EUROS, so this episode celebrates the huge summer of sport we’re having by listening back to some brilliant sportspeople who’ve told their stories on Happy Place. Plus, if you’ve been inspired to move your own body more, how can you set your own fitness goals and – most importantly! – enjoy the process?
In this episode –
-Broadcaster Gabby Logan reflects on just how momentous it was when the Lionesses won the EUROs in 2023
-UFC fighter Molly McCann explains what happens when you’re on your period as an athlete
-Olympic rower Helen Glover chats about how motherhood made her even more ambitious for herself
-DJ Adele Roberts inspires with her story of setting the world record as the fastest female to run the London Marathon with a stoma bag
-Comedian Joel Dommett laughs about his own marathon attempts going tits up
-Psychologist Pippa Grange shares what she knows about goal setting from working with England’s football team
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, a massive welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. Today, a celebration of the huge summer of sport that we're having, alongside a little bit of motivation to move your own body. |
| 0:13.2 | When you're on the start line, you're so vulnerable. You don't get a head start just because you won the last race. |
| 0:18.3 | They held jobs down the day, they were playing football in the evenings. |
| 0:21.2 | You know, I think you could really feel that history. |
| 0:23.3 | And those lionesses have got a great sense of that as well, of their legacy. |
| 0:27.1 | I'd never take a day off. |
| 0:28.4 | Like, even when I'm bad, I'll come in the gym, train through Indrian. |
| 0:31.1 | It takes me coaches to look at me to go home today. |
| 0:34.0 | I started to see self-care as something that was good and not selfish. I think I used to think I |
| 0:37.8 | was being selfish if I actually cared about myself. Care of the soul and tenderness. If I think about |
| 0:43.1 | athletes I've worked with, it's probably that that made the difference rather than some technique. |
| 0:49.2 | Do not remember from 25K to 30K, because I work up in an ambulance of 30K, |
| 1:00.5 | and I've got these awful flashes of what I think is the worst part of my personality that came out at this time. |
| 1:03.0 | Look, like I said, 2025 is a massive summer for sport. |
| 1:07.1 | We had Wimbledon, we've got the women's rugby world cup, |
| 1:10.2 | the world boxing championships, the World Boxing Championships, |
| 1:12.5 | the Outdoor World Athletic Championships too. And of course, we had the UEFA Women's Euros, |
| 1:19.3 | which the lionesses only went and bloody won for a second time in a row. Oh my God, we're obsessed |
| 1:25.4 | with them. I don't know about you, but I love |
| 1:27.7 | watching these huge moments. Women's football certainly has not only made me like football, |
| 1:34.5 | but also given me such a fire in my belly. Maybe just because I'm a woman, but also because |
| 1:41.0 | I'm a mother to a daughter and a stepdaughter. The fire I've had my belly has just been initiated by seeing these amazing women go against the grain to put women's football out there. |
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