Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jimmy Le Jamel. I hope you're well.

And if you aren't well, then maybe today's episode will help because the work of the person I'm

bringing on today has helped me massively. I have known her for, God, years and years and years.

I think since she was a teenager and have watched her truly, truly evolve in every way a person can.

And I've watched her start off as a TV host and somehow find her way to being one of the leading

positive voices in mental health care. And she is such a warm, informed, self-informed, self-educated,

unpretentious, excellent, kind human being. Someone that I often wish that I was more like.

And so I'm thrilled to have her on the podcast today. Her name is Poppy Jamie. If you aren't already

following her on Instagram, you absolutely should. Because she's the best. All you will find is

positive and uplifting content. We talk so much about the neuroscience behind mental health and

and our patterns and where they come from and and what our human tendencies are. That often we

shame ourselves over when we have no choice because certain instincts of ours override the thing

that we wish our brain would do. And it's because of her own journey with mental health and the mental

health of, you know, family members of hers that she had to work through that she decided to learn

exactly how her brain works, exactly how this computer, this machine inside of her works.

In order to be able to work out what she can and can't control and that's so empowering,

it's such an empowering and interesting way to approach mental health and something that I've

never considered, even though I'd read so much and I'd had so much therapy, I never thought about

the basic functions of my brain that I cannot help. And had I understood those earlier, I would have

spent so much less time beating myself up and I would have known how to approach whatever it was

that I was feeling. Better. She has a book coming out called Happy Not Perfect, Upgrade Your Mind,

Challenge Your Thoughts and Free Yourself from Anxiety, it's out on June 8th and she's just the

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