Hello, I'm Fernacotton and this is Happy Place, the show that gets you to trust in yourself more.

Today I'm chatting to Dr Julie Smith.

The core thing about mental health is you feel so out of control and overwhelmed and distressed, but as soon as you see an avenue for something that you can do, your mind has a

guide to follow. And when I was sort of working with probably young women mostly, he would come

along feeling that I was going to fix them in some way or that all the things that life could

throw at you, they didn't know how to deal with it or that they didn't believe they could cope.

All that changed between the beginning of therapy and the end of therapy, life was still stressful for them and they still had lots of stuff to face, but they just realized they could trust themselves to do something with it. I hope you're all good. I'm currently sat in my kitchen. I just went for a big old morning walk because my head was all scrambled. And then, do you know what I just did? I got in. I was

stood in the kitchen and I was really hot after my walk. So I took, well, I lifted my jumper over

my head without realizing I didn't have a t-shirt on underneath. And I've got a bunch of builders

stood on the driveway. So any one of them might have just got a quick flash of my

bra. Who knows? I'm very red-faced and quickly pulled my jumper back down. So here I am, sat slightly

mortified, ignoring the builders and cracking on with hopefully delivering you an episode of Happy Place, which is soothing to your soul.

I think it really will be. I think we all need it. I don't know about you, but when I was on my

walk just now, I went on the walk because I was meant to be doing a Happy Place episode, but one of

the guests wasn't very well. So all plans changed. and I was voice noting lots of my mates about

stuff in my life stuff in their life and it just seems like everyone's got a hell of a lot of shit

going on right now and that's where good friends really come into play right we're all kind

of therapists each other on voice note which I'm so hereful I love my mates I fucking love them

anyway this episode,

if you are having a bit of a mare, will be a tonic, I reckon. I've been looking forward to

having psychologist Dr. Julie back on the show for years. We haven't had a catch-up in ages.

And I know that you lot have been excited too because in the last

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