Therapist Philippa Perry solves your midlife dilemmas
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapist and parenting guru Philippa Perry gives Lorraine and Trish some tried & tested advice on theirs - and other listeners’ - midlife problems, from finding harmony at home in lockdown, to unexpected confidence crashes and a peri-menopause identity crisis. Plus what it’s like living with her award-winning artist husband Grayson Perry, and getting creative for a new series of their hit Channel 4 art show.
Also in this episode: Culture Club, our new midlife book, TV, & film hotlist; plus volume boosting hair tips and an alarming encounter with Fanny Craddock…
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god, Trish, that's taken us half an hour to get your little face on the screen there. |
| 0:04.6 | I was going to ask you what kind of a teacher you were going to be because I'm homeschooling this week, |
| 0:09.7 | but we know what teacher you can't be, don't we? |
| 0:12.0 | Can you do technology? |
| 0:13.4 | Yeah, you can't. |
| 0:14.2 | Is that even when they call it these days? |
| 0:15.7 | No. |
| 0:16.2 | Oh my god. |
| 0:17.3 | No, no, no, it's not. |
| 0:18.4 | Definitely not. |
| 0:19.2 | No, that attempt to get zoom on my phone was quite shocking, wasn't it? |
| 0:22.5 | But got there in the end, but I wouldn't be a maths teacher either. |
| 0:25.4 | So I think I'd probably have to be an English teacher, |
| 0:28.0 | because I like a bit of a novel and a poem and a play. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, I've tried all of the lessons this week, |
| 0:34.8 | and I'm just a bit dismayed that there's no kind of opportunity or opening for a dark arts teacher, |
| 0:40.5 | like there is in Harry Potter, because I think that might be where my skills lie. |
| 0:45.8 | It spells and it turns out, yes, as it turns out, all I can do is with any efficiencies, |
| 0:51.5 | PE, it's just a few star jumps and some roly-poly, so that's my teacher. |
| 0:55.7 | A bit of skipping and jumping, very nice, because you know what I haven't got. |
| 0:59.1 | Trish, coordinate, know what? |
| 1:02.1 | Patience. |
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