Holiday Phillips is a speaker, writer, thinker, organisational consultant and coach and she works at the intersection of personal transformation and collective liberation. In this episode, we talk about the radical acceptance of all parts of ourselves in order to release ourselves from the pressure to be perfect.

Holiday's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holidayphillips/?hl=en

Holiday's website: https://www.holidayphillips.com/

Tiffany Philippou's book, Totally Fine (and other lies I've told myself)

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Children's author, illustrator and poet, Laura Dockrill shares her story of having postpartum psychosis after the birth of her son. As a warning, we do talk about suicide and some other difficult themes in this episode. Please take care when listening and seek support if you need it.

Follow Laura on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraleedockrill/?hl=en

Laura's book, What Have I Done?: Motherhood, Mental Illness & Me: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529112540/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Action on Postpartum Psychosis is the charity Laura is an ambassador for: https://www.app-network.org/

Tiffany Philippou's book, Totally Fine (and other lies I've told myself)

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Chloë Ashby is an author and award-winning arts journalist. Her first novel, Wet Paint, revolves around the rudderless Eve, who is forced to confront the traumatic events surrounding her best friend's death.

Buy Wet Paint: https://geni.us/WetPaint

Follow Chloë on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chloelashby

Follow Chloë on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chloelashby/

www.chloeashby.com

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Marisa is a writer, speaker and entrepreneur and has written for the likes of Glamour CNN, Refinery29 and many others. Marisa talks to us about losing her mother to cancer in her twenties and her pregnancy loss. Her book, Grief is love, living with loss is out now.

Follow Marisa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marisareneelee/

Buy Marisa's book, Grief is love: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grief-Love-Living-Marisa-Lee/dp/0306926024

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Jo is a writer and culture critic who lives in Brooklyn, New York and they share their story of learning to drive. This chats get deep and Jo even subverts the narrative around pretending to be fine!

Follow Jo on Twitter: @Jo_Livingstone

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Nicola is a journalist, writer and public speaker. She’s worked in news at the Guardian and at Huffpost. While at HuffPost, Nicola wrote a personal essay about being the only single one in her friendship group and it went viral. Nicola then went on to create of my favourite newsletters, The Single Supplement, which is about the highs and lows of single life.

In this episode, Nicola shares her experience of being single and wanting to be a mother.

Nicola's newsletter, The Single Supplement: https://thesinglesupplement.substack.com/

Nicola's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicola_slawson/?hl=en

Unattached: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unattached-Essays-Singlehood-Angelica-Malin/dp/1529110394/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Stork and I: https://thestorkandi.com/

Gateway Women: https://gateway-women.com/

Ambiguous Grief: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/how-be-okay-being-single/590854/

Social Infertility and mother's day: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/single-women-motherhood-mothers-day-social-infertility-410352

Nicola's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesinglesupplement

Facebook group for people who are solo mums or considering it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/190410894999092

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Egyptian-born, London-raised writer Alya Mooro shares her story of being groomed as a teenager and losing her virginity.

Alya's book The Greater Freedom - Life as a middle eastern woman outside the stereotypes: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-greater-freedom-life-as-a-middle-eastern-woman-outside-the-stereotypes/9781542041218

Sign up to Alya's newsletter, The Greater Conversation: https://thegreaterconversation.substack.com/

Alya's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alyamooro/

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Theatre-maker, writer, performer, producer and HIV activist, Nathaniel J Hall shares his story of HIV diagnosis as a teenager.

Nathaniel J Hall played Donald Bassett in the channel 4 show ‘It’s A Sin’ which was a Russel T Davies drama about HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and has a solo show, First Time, which is about his experience of being diagnosed with HIV.

Order the play text for First Time, with £3 donation going to George House Trust: https://www.nathanieljhall.co.uk/shop

Book a free HIV test: https://freetesting.hiv/

Nathaniel's website: https://www.nathanieljhall.co.uk/

Nathaniel's Instagram & twitter: https://www.instagram.com/nathanieljhall/ and https://twitter.com/NathanielJHall

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