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Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

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

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It starts with you. Those are the words life coach Sam Adams lives by. She also likes to wonder how our lives would be different if we believed the universe was conspiring for us, not against us, as our paranoid minds might be telling us.

In this episode, Fearne celebrates 100 million podcast downloads by meeting Sam, Matt, and Mel, Happy Place listeners who’ve all been through their own tough stuff, but have been open to learning about themselves along the way.

While Sam shares the origins of her own low self-worth, Matt Kendall’s story begins with a painful break up. Recognising that he’d made mistakes in the relationship, and that he hadn’t shown up for his partner, he began looking into attachment theory, and the role toxic masculinity was perhaps playing.

Mel Anderton also joins Fearne; after losing her son to suicide in 2015, she’s been working to explore the question ‘is suicide preventable, or inevitable?’ Working in mental health in Greater Manchester, Mel is now able to reflect on how her son’s experience of medical and mental health services might have been different today thanks to progress being made in this area.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank conversation about suicide, so do take care while listening.

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0:00.0	Before we start, this episode contains conversations you might find difficult to hear, so do check the show notes for more details if you need to.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to an incredibly special episode of Happy Place.
0:18.0	I'm Fern Cotton and today we're celebrating something pretty cool, 100 million downloads of Happy Place.
0:26.0	Thank you, you beautiful people.
0:28.0	So today I'm chatting to you.
0:31.0	So there were lots of patterns where I just wasn't really able to navigate a relationship in a healthy way.
0:37.0	And I realised that that was in part at least due to these childhood experiences of how I related to my parents but also childhood experiences at school and with other people.
0:50.0	Unlike many males who struggled to reach out and to talk about how their feeling Jake didn't fit that mould, he couldn't have shouted any louder.
0:58.0	And I'm so proud and privileged that he shared everything with me and he spoke to me and trusted me and he talked to me about substance issues and so on.
1:08.0	And he knew that he could trust me.
1:10.0	You can't get to the end of the day and go, I want to really do that again because I messed it up, I didn't do this, I didn't do that, I wasn't intentional enough.
1:18.0	So treat every day as your first day, your last day because it's your only day and it is non-refundable so give it the best you can.
1:26.0	I'd like to properly start by saying a heartfelt thank you to all of you listeners.
1:32.0	Without you, we simply couldn't make this podcast happen.
1:36.0	And I think when I started out making Happy Place, I didn't really know what I was doing.
1:42.0	I knew I wanted to have very deep conversations and hopefully ones that were helpful but I could never have imagined a day where we would reach 100 million downloads.
1:54.0	And although I often say we can't quantify our happiness, we can't put a number on it.
2:00.0	I do still totally believe that but I think this feels like a bit of a moment to celebrate for me and the Happy Place team and hopefully for you brilliant people too.
2:12.0	It's a real community we've built here, maybe accidentally at first but my God, we totally love and appreciate it today being in constant conversation with you amazing listeners and getting such valuable feedback has made this podcast exactly what it is.
2:28.0	So a massive, massive thank you.
2:32.0	So the whole point of this is it's about you. I feel endlessly honored and impressed by how much you're willing to share of yourselves after hearing certain conversations on this show.
2:44.0	So this episode is about your stories.
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