How your childhood affects your parenting style

Would you be a different version of you if you’d surrounded yourself with different people?   This is something the plot of The Husbands, the Happy Place Book Club pick for August, explores. In this chat with Fearne, live at the Happy Place Festival, author Holly Gramazio explains why she wanted to examine the idea that different relationships could significantly impact your lifestyle and personality.   She reckons there’s more than one way for you to be happy and for you to be yourself; there’s not necessarily a clear, correct choice about who you should date, what job you should have, or where you should live.   Fearne and Holly also give advice about how to start writing a novel if you feel you have one in you, including finding a friend who’s rubbish at lying to read your drafts... Thank you to Penguin Audio for the use of The Husbands audiobook, read by Miranda Raison.   Listen to Book Club Meets: Sofie Hagen   Listen to Book Club Meets: Fearne Cotton   Listen to Book Club Meets: Jo Cheetham   Listen to Book Club Meets: Jennie Godfrey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What you eat is having a direct effect on your mood and behaviour. Naturopath and functional medicine practitioner Lucinda Miller wants to help your brain thrive.   In this chat with Fearne, Lucinda talks about her own ADHD diagnosis and how changing her eating habits has changed her ability to cope with day-to-day life.   Learn what it means to have a neurodivergent brain, and how symptoms can be managed with diet and nutrition. A neurodivergent brain may use five times the brain area of a neurotypical brain to do just one simple task, so proper fuelling with nutritious food is essential.   Lucinda talks through the nutrients that best support emotional regulation, memory and mood, regardless of whether you’re neurodivergent or not. Plus, how the antibiotics you took years ago might still be affecting your gut health, and in turn, how your brain functions.   Lucinda’s book, Brain Brilliance, is out now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you confidently say: “I like myself”? What would it take for you to get to that place?   The Happy Place Festival Talk Stage hosted loads of speakers across the weekend at Chiswick House and Gardens, and Fearne wants to bring you in on the Festival magic!   You’ll hear parts of the talks given by Gabby Bernstein, Roxie Nafousi, Lisa Snowdon, Paul C Brunson, Will Young, and Dawn O’Porter, and learn a little bit from each of them about how to unapologetically be yourself. During this episode, you’ll explore what limiting beliefs are holding you back, how to get clarity around who you want to be, and how to identify what values are important to you (not the ones you’re being told to value!)   Then, how to align your behaviour with your values to make tangible change for your future self, and – of course – how to put boundaries in place with other people so your values aren’t compromised...   Listen to Gabby Bernstein’s full episode   Listen to Paul C Brunson’s full episode   Listen to Will Young’s full episode   Listen to Dawn O’Porter’s full episode Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The bad times are intimately connected to the good. Author Matt Haig thinks happiness is only happiness because sadness exists.   In this chat, Fearne and Matt talk about how hindsight can be an incredibly healing perspective shifter. He’s found closure, progress, and contentment by revisiting memories that were previously traumatising.   How good are you at facing up to your traumas rather than running away? Matt explains how he stopped finding excuses and blaming external factors – people or places – when really there was internal work to do. Plus, by trying to avoid triggers, are we just making ourselves more anxious?   Fearne and Matt also chat about our ever-shifting notions of success, and why it’s useful to feel like a failure sometimes.   Matt’s novel, The Life Impossible, is out on August 29th.   CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about suicidal ideation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We don’t get lucky, we create our own luck. Jason Donovan has achieved great success, but has worked incredibly hard to actively create his happy lifestyle.   In this chat with Fearne – live from the Happy Place Festival – Jason explains how we can choose to view moments of adversity as moments for change and reinvention.   Are you completely single-minded in your pursuit of your dreams, or do you like to have a realistic plan B? Fearne and Jason wonder where the best balance lies.   Plus, Fearne reveals the extent of her teenage obsession with Jason, and Jason reveals the secret to a long marriage...   Jason is in ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ on the West End in September 2024, and will be touring his solo music with ‘Doin’ Fine 25’ from February 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.