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Fearne Cotton talks to incredible people about life, love, loss, and everything in-between as she reveals what happiness means to them.
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Happy Place Fearne Cotton

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

Fearne Cotton talks to incredible people about life, love, loss, and everything in-between as she reveals what happiness means to them.
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    Kate Silverton: Parenting, emotional regulation, and screen time

    Kate Silverton: Parenting, emotional regulation, and screen time

    Did you learn to regulate your emotions as a child? Broadcaster turned child therapist Kate Silverton says our ability to regulate our emotions has been found to be the best indicator of future happiness.
     
    In this chat with Fearne, Kate definitively explains why it’s never too late to change your relationship with your kids regardless of how much you think you’ve already messed up. Kate talks through why it’s not about changing our children, it’s about changing their environment. Similarly, it’s not that you’re bad at parenting, it’s that you’re being expected to parent while under often more stress and with less community support.
     
    Fearne and Kate also chat about why all of these conversations are relevant even if you’re not a parent, because all these things – soothing anxiety, acknowledging emotions, cultivating resilience – also relate to our relationships with our own parents, and ourselves...
     
    Plus, Kate gives her take on how best to help children with neurodiversity, and how screens are really affecting our brains.
     
    Kate’s book, There’s Still No Such Thing As Naughty, is out on the March 28th. 
     

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    • 1 hr 16 min
    Kirsty Gallagher: A meditation for connection and purpose

    Kirsty Gallagher: A meditation for connection and purpose

    How often do you honour your emotions, and ask yourself “how are you, in this moment?” Spiritual coach and meditation teacher Kirsty Gallagher guides you through a meditation that helps you connect with your inner wisdom, and to get beneath the noise and chaos of the outside world.
     
    So, find yourself somewhere quiet and comfortable for this gorgeous 10 minute meditation. While you’re doing that, you can first listen to a chapter from Kirsty’s new book, The Goddess Path, which is published by Happy Place Books. It’s a powerful read that will help you reclaim your self-worth, establish boundaries, and cultivate your intuition.
     
    For more of Kirsty’s meditations, download the Happy Place app.
     
    Kirsty’s book, The Goddess Path is out now.

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    • 26 min
    Zara Larsson: Ambition, extroverts, and Pinterest interiors

    Zara Larsson: Ambition, extroverts, and Pinterest interiors

    Some people are born driven; Zara Larsson is one of them. Sixteen years into her career, she’s still got huge ambitions for what she wants to achieve and what she expects of herself.
     
    In this chat, Fearne and Zara talk about how to make sure we’re content and satisfied in the moment, while acknowledging that we continuously want to evolve and grow. We have to be curious about our human potential by pushing our own boundaries.
     
    Plus, Fearne and Zara realise they’re the total opposite person – one being an introvert who craves time alone, the other being an extrovert who thrives on social interaction.
     
    Zara’s new album, Venus, is out now.

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    • 46 min
    Jess Glynne: Gut instinct, grief, and fucking up

    Jess Glynne: Gut instinct, grief, and fucking up

    Change is scary but liberating. Grief has galvanised musician Jess Glynne, changing her outlook on life and making her more fearless.
     
    In this chat with Fearne, Jess explains why learning that life is short has helped her trust her gut and make decisions that really serve her personally and professionally, rather than internalising other people’s feedback.
     
    Fearne and Jess also talk through how to forgive both yourself and others for fucking up. We’re all going to make mistakes, so they chat about how we can give each other some grace and a space to learn, rather than creating a culture of fear.
     
    Jess’ new album – Jess – is out on April 26th, and her latest single, Enough, is out now.
    Listen to Glennon Doyle's episode of Happy Place here!
     

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    • 48 min
    Anastacia: Resilience, cancer, and broken Barbies

    Anastacia: Resilience, cancer, and broken Barbies

    Distress can be transformed into growth. Having had breast cancer, a double mastectomy, and Crohn’s, music icon Anastacia knows all too well how to be resilient through health scares.
     
    In this chat, Fearne and Anastacia discuss how mindset and perspective can make a huge difference to our reality, especially for someone like Anastacia, who says she’s both an anxious and an optimistic person.
     
    Plus, given the voices in her head that often told her she wasn’t pretty enough, Anastacia also gives advice on how to be ok with not looking like everyone else on the internet, and how to resist the urge to always use filters when posting online.
     
    Anastacia’s new album, Our Songs, is out now. It celebrates the music Anastacia fell in love with while in Germany and presents 12 English-language interpretations of German top hits from the 1980s.

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    • 56 min
    Natasha Bedingfield: Speaking up, motherhood, and spaghetti straps

    Natasha Bedingfield: Speaking up, motherhood, and spaghetti straps

    What do you want to say that you’re not saying? After decades in the music industry Natasha Bedingfield has learnt from experience that being true to ourselves has to be more important than being liked.
     
    In this chat, Fearne and Natasha explore practical ways to speak up and assert yourself, with Natasha drawing inspiration from the way legends like Tina Turner physically take control of their voice in order to be seen and heard.
     
    Plus, not concerned by prescriptive parenting guidelines, they share their own unique techniques, proving every family should feel able to live by the rules that make most sense to all the individual characters in the mix.
     

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    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
14.6K Ratings

14.6K Ratings

@PrintFix ,

Very Funny

Hi Ferne, I have been busy working my way through all your episodes for the last few months. I was going to wait until I was completely up to date before writing a review, but I just listened to Samantha Renke and couldn’t hold back. What remarkable, funny, naughty, strong and inspiring human she is. Not wishing to take anything away from any of your other guests but she’s great, am really enjoying happy place as a whole though. And I’ll reiterate what a lot of your guests say too, well done for all the great work that you’re doing and for being so open and vulnerable because it really helps. You’re a great person, I loved you on the telly and radio but love you even more now. Keep going, I’m up to September 22 now so getting there slowly. Thank you 😊

Annapotter_xx ,

Too woo-woo

It’s well meaning and sometimes I enjoy an episode. But most of it is too out there. If you are a crystal healing kinda person you’ll be at home here.

&@59 ,

C Hefner, really?

Still holding to that surname for dear life eh?! 🤢🤑🤮 Felt sorry for Fern, she really did try to get some depth out of this this empty shell.
Obviously this was a book promotion guest partnership. 👎🏼

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