Happiful: Finding What Works (Happiful - Mental Health )

In the first episode of I am. I have - how it helps, psychotherapist and Clinical Director of The London Practice Lee Valls, joins Lucy Donoughue to speak about relationship counselling and the benefit it can have for couples experiencing life challenges. 

Drawing on his professional experience, as well as his time as consultant therapist on the Channel 4 programme, Seven Year Switch, Lee also offers thoughts on how we can all make simple changes to improve our relationships. 

You can find out more information about Lee

If you would like to find a counsellor near you, visit the Counselling Directory.

If you are in need of immediate support, you can call the Samaritans, 24 hours a day, free of charge on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

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Activist, Author and Mental Health Advocate Natasha Devon  joined I am. I have to share her thoughts on activism, working in schools with young people (“the best job in the universe”), education, Brexit and what personal projects she wants to prioritise in 2019. 

She talks about being a work in progress, channelling anger into change, her adoration of our canine chums and 'having issues'.

Learn more about Natasha's work at www.natashadevon.com 

I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue. 

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

This is a live recording of Happiful’s conversation with Moon Mentor Kirsty Gallagher at Wellbeing by the Lakes Festival in Dorset. Kirsty talks about the upcoming autumn equinox, people pleasing and why you should move forward with the dream that's calling to you.

I am. I have will be back on Tuesday so please follow and subscribe to receive this as soon as its released, as well as weekly bonus episodes recorded live on Wellbeing by the Lakes riverside stage as part of our Happiful Afternoons series.

Check out more of Kirsty’s work at kirstygallagher.com and you can pre-order her book Crystals for Self care.

This interview was hosted by Lucy Donoughue, at Wellbeing by the Lakes for Happiful. The wonderful Ollie from FB Music and Media Ltd captured and engineered the sound.

Anna Mathur, Psychotherapist, author of Mind over Mother and the upcoming book Know Your Worth, talks about the rollercoaster we’re all on, letting go of guilt, gratitude and allowing ourselves to feel. 

Find out more about Anna Mathur

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Megan Crabbe, AKA BodyPosiPanda, is the first interviewee for the second season of I am. I have, bought to you by Happiful Magazine and Counselling. 

Megan talks with host Lucy Donoughue, about her beloved dogs, her work as a body positivity and eating disorder recovery advocate, author and influencer. She shares her experience of living with and recovering from anorexia and also her close bond with older sister and 'Little Mix OG' Gemma.

This  podcast coincides with the May edition of Happiful Magazine, for which Megan is the cover interview. You can find out more about Megan on Instagram @bodyposipanda

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org 

In the first episode of Happiful: Finding What Works, we’re sharing an introduction of sorts. We’ll reintroduce ourselves as a company and introduce you to the new podcast (and why we’re so passionate about it!). We’ll also introduce you to our host Kat, who shares more of her story and what is currently working for her. 

Learn more about us and find transcripts at happiful.com.  

Beatrice Zornek, a deeply experienced career coach and coaching supervisor who specialises in working with Highly Sensitive People or HSP’s, joins Happiful's podcast to explore the traits that many HSP’s share, how to manage self care and energy as a HSP, the risk of burnout and why working with a coach could be hugely beneficial.

Find out more about Beatrice

Visit Life Coach Directory to find career coaches

Visit Happiful.com

Visit Beatrice's website

Resources mentioned by Beatrice

The Highly Sensitive Person website

The Highly Sensitive Refuge

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Happiful’s columnist Grace Victory shares her three 'I am’s' and one 'I have' on Happiful and Counselling Directory's podcast

Following her cover interview in August’s Magazine,  Grace talks about life, alignment, standing in her power and acknowledging anxiety. 

For more information about Grace - visit her website and Instagram page

Listen to The Sister Space

Grace's Book Recommendations include A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue. 

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Dr Joshua Wolrich, NHS surgical doctor and author of Food isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutribollocks and Escape the Diet Trap joins Happiful’s podcast to talk about his willingness to be wrong and challenging his own internalised weight stigma

Buy Food isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutribollocks and Escape the Diet Trap

Follow Dr Joshua Wolrich

Download the free Happiful App

Creator of Isle of Paradise, Co - Founder of Yan Tan and self acceptance advocate Jules Von Hep joins Happiful to talk about new beginnings, letting go of your inner critic and the brilliant things that happen when you do.

Follow Jules on Instagram 

Find out more about YanTan

Visit Isle of Paradise

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Dianne Buswell, Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer, holistic life coach and author of Move Yourself Happy: 21 Days to Make Joyful Movement a Habit shares why determination and gratitude are so important in her life, as well as the benefits of focusing on the present moment every day and talking with a therapist when she needs to.

Dianne's book Move Yourself Happy: 21 Days to Make Joyful Movement a Habit  is out now

Read more about mental health and wellbeing at Happiful.com

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Integrative counsellor Louise Allen, Founder of Fern Counselling, talks about about outdoor therapy, walking sessions, death cafes and working with nature as a co-therapist. Louise’s therapeutic approach is inspired by nature, life cycles and natural growth and we talk about our relatedness to nature.

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Hannah Beecham, Founder of RED January, shares the story behind RED, the reason that 2021 will be a great year to start moving and RED's work with Happiful and Sports in Mind.

Sign up to RED January here

Find out more about Sport in Mind

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Vex King, author of Good Vibes, Good Life, Healing is the New High and now Closer to Love kindly shares the experiences that led him to study and share the compassionate and practical ways we can improve our lives, the importance of authenticity and the passion he has for supporting others. He speaks about a childhood that saw great difficulties including racism, homelessness and poverty and the desire for change and healing that brought him to books, self development and an unwavering commitment to his values and alleviating the suffering of others.

You can find out more about Vex King  and please visit The Rising Circle for free self-development and self-love tools.

Order Vex's magnificent books here. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here and read more from Happiful

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available, and free to access, 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org.

Download the Happiful App here

Stephen Manderson, also known as Professor Green, joins Happiful to talk about gut health, what led him to conceive Aguulp, his own mental health, finding balance in life and his hopes for the future

Find out more about Professor Green

Find out more about Aguulp

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Do you struggle to relax? If switching off feels more like a to-do than a treat, we’ve got you. In this week’s episode, we’re chatting to three experts on all things relaxation, offering a range of tools to explore from reflexology and hypnotherapy to pottery and crafting. We explore why relaxing isn’t always easy and the small steps you can take to ease into relaxation.

Get the right support for you at Happiful.

Learn more about Louis.

Learn more about Amy.

Learn more about Nina.

Editing by Jack Hoggard.

GP, broadcaster and author Dr Radha Modgil joins host Lucy Donoughue to be talk about harnessing your own power, but specifically in tough times when we’re feeling like that’s the last thing we might be able to do. Dr Radha is the perfect person to discuss this, as she’s just released her brilliant book Know Your Own Power.

Radha shares the signs that we may be in a downwards spiral, what happens when we realise our lives or circumstances may need to change and managing grief when life throws the unexpected at us.

Find out more about Dr Radha Modgil

Her book Know Your Own Power

Dr Radha's podcast

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Psychotherapist and globally acclaimed author of the Sunday Times Bestseller 'Ten to Zen', 'Ten Times Happier' and now his new book 'How to Be Your Own Therapist', Owen O’Kane join’s Happiful’s podcast to talk about becoming your own therapist, managing change, health anxiety and post pandemic stress.

Order Owen’s new book 'How to be Your Own Therapist' 

Watch Owen’s incredible TedX Talk 'Bombs, Bullets, Bullying and a Piano'

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk or download the free Happiful App. 

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Clinical Psychologist Dr Julie Smith shares her expert thoughts and advice on the subject of burnout, as well as discussing her brilliant new book Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? and the impact of her supportive social media content around mental health and wellbeing, with an audience of over 3 million followers on TikTok. 

Watch and hear more from Dr Julie Smith on TikTok or YouTube

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is available now. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Rosie Green joins Happiful's podcast to share her thoughts on heartbreak, healing, gratitude, new beginnings and her brilliant new book How to Heal a Broken Heart. Rosie is an award-winning journalist and stylist. She's worked and written for Elle, Vogue, The Times and The Telegraph and is currently contributing editor at Red magazine and a columnist for The Telegraph. 

Follow Rosie Green 

Find out more about Rosie 

Buy How To Heal A Broken Heart by Rosie Green

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Writer and author of Rootbound: Rewilding A Life, Alice Vincent shares her love of gardening, contemplates growth, cultivating a community and learning to move forward after great change. 

Follow Alice @noughticulture

Rootbound: Rewilding A Life is out now.

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue.

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

For the final episode of season one I’m joined by some of my Happiful colleagues to talk about what does and doesn’t work - from burnout and grief to flexible working and connection, this conversation covers a lot, so there’s something for everyone. for them. The team also shares some words of wisdom for those just starting their journey on finding what works

We’ll be back in the New Year with season two, until then be sure to check out Happiful.com to learn more about mental health and wellbeing and to find support that works for you.

In today’s exhale episode, we’re exploring friendships. Last week we had a conversation about the importance of friendship, how to make new friends, friendship maintenance and how to know when it’s time to let go of a friendship. This week, to help you put what you learned into practice, we’re sharing 10 questions to ask a friend to help deepen your connection. So set a date with a pal, grab a cuppa and enjoy the discussion.

Listen to last week’s conversation.

Read the full 30 questions.

Founder of Andy’s Man Club and mental health advocate Luke Ambler shares the importance of being real, raw and always asking ‘what next’?, rather than ‘why me?’

Award-winning mental health advocate and motivational speaker Luke Ambler joins Happiful and Counselling Directory’s podcast to share his thoughts on fatherhood, keeping it real and raw and growing from past experiences.

Find out more about Luke's work 

Find out more about Andy's Man Club

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue. 

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Leading nutritionist, author and podcast host Rhiannon Lambert shares her story with Happiful’s I am. I have - How It Helps. 

Host of chart topping Food For Thought podcast, Rhiannon Lambert, joined Happiful’s I am. I have - How It Helps podcast to talk about how she started out in her career, the importance of evidence based information and how to find and work with a nutritionist

Find out more about Rhiannon and do check out her wonderful podcast and book - Food For Thought and Re-Nourish; A Simple Way To Eat Well. 

If you are looking for a nutritionist near you, visit Nutritionist Resource.

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue. 

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Joe Wicks, known world-wide as The Body Coach, joins I am. I have to talk about exercise, meditation, the whirlwind of workouts in 2020, why movement is essential for your mental health and looking forward to the future.

Buy Joe’s book 30 Day Kick Start Plan

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Steve Mann, acclaimed dog trainer and author of Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy joins I am. I have for a special episode to share how we can support our canine companions during - and after lockdown

Find out more about Steve here

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue.

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

This bonus track is a recording of our live webinar with Nutritional Therapist Claudine Thornhill, discussing the subject of Prioritsing Wellness. 

This webinar is the second of four in partnership with RED January

Check out more at happiful.com

nutritionist-resource.org.uk or download the free Happiful App.

Find out more about RED January

Happiful is heading to Dorset from 8-12 September, to be part of the fantastic five day festival Wellbeing by the Lakes.

Day tickets are just £12.50 and you can find out more by visiting wellbeingbythelakes.co.uk or searching Happiful and Wellbeing by the Lakes.

We’ll be presenting Happiful afternoons in the Riverside Tent every day, joined by mental health and wellbeing professionals, and Yellow Kite authors including the wonderful Kirsty Gallagher, Sunday Times’ bestselling author of Lunar Living and the Lunar Living Journal , Happy Not Perfect author Poppy Jamie and the author of Anxious Man and co-host of the VoiceMail podcast Josh Roberts. More of our programming will be announced in the coming weeks.

In addition to our afternoon sessions, there’ll be talks, workshops, yoga, pilates, great food, chances to let your mind wander, opportunities to meet and talk with other people and to be inspired, reinvigorated and restored.

We cannot imagine a more beautiful place for this festival,  surrounded by 26 acres of nature, lakes and riverside beauty, as well as stunning sculptures and works of art.

We can’t wait to see you there!

I am. I have will be back in September.

Lee Valls, psychotherapist and Clinical Director of The London Practice, joins Lucy Donoughue to speak about bereavement counselling and the benefit it can have for people experiencing grief.

You can find out more information about Lee

If you would like to find a counsellor near you, visit the Counselling Directory.

If you are in need of immediate support, you can call the Samaritans, 24 hours a day, free of charge on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Thank you for listening, we hope you'll rate, review, subscribe and share your thoughts on social using #iamihave

Hypnotherapist Natasha Crowe shares her thoughts on fears and phobias, focussing on needles and injections for this episode of I am. I have - How It Helps. She shares how hypnotherapy can help people to overcome and manage their fear and phobia of needles and shares a beautiful ten minute anxiety reducing session of calm. 

Find out more about Natasha

Search Hypnotherapy Directory

Co-founder of Love Sober Kate Baily, a certified professional Sobriety & Life Coach, joins us to talk about the path that led her to an alcohol free life, how alcohol can impact our anxiety levels and ways to discover what you love by leaving alcohol out of your life. Kate shares great solid information about the benefits of choosing to go alcohol free. 

Check out Love Sober

Buy Love Your Sober Year

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

This week we’re inviting you to take some time to relax. Yoga teacher Sarah Wheeler, our guest from last week’s conversation on trauma is sharing a calming yoga nidra practice with us. Get yourself comfortable, turn away from any distractions, and enjoy.

Note: Please do not listen while driving.

Connect with Sarah. 

Learn more about yoga nidra.

Find a yoga therapist.

Happiful: Finding what works is coming on Wednesday 30th August. Join us as we explore mental health and wellness topics with professionals and those with lived experience.

From relaxation to friendship, we’ll ask what it means for something to ‘work’ for us and what tools can support us. After each conversation we’ll make space for you to reflect before moving on in our exhale episodes - creating a more mindful way of consuming content. Subscribe to join the conversation. 

Happiful's March Cover Star Munroe Bergdorf speaks on I am. I have about wellness, trauma, strength, getting uncomfortable and finding more space for creativity, self care and balance in 2019. 

Read an extract from Munroe's interview or visit her website to find out more about her work. 

If you'd like to read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit happiful.com and subscribe to receive a free e-edition of the magazine every month.  You can buy the print magazine here

If you are looking for therapy, you can find over 15,000 other counsellors across the UK by visiting the Counselling Directory. 

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 116 123. Help is available. 

I am. I have. is produced by Happiful and hosted by Lucy Donoughue

Michelle Elman, Author, Speaker, Life Coach and Founder of Scarred Not Scared joins I am. I have to talk about resilience, sharing her scars but not her wounds and creating boundaries in her life. 

Find out more about Michelle.

Read Michelle's book

Follow Michelle on Instagram and YouTube.

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine, Counselling Directory and the new Happiful App and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue.

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Award-winning nutritionist, author, and founder of Happy Hormones for Life Nicki Williams shares her own experiences of hormonal turbulence, understanding the peri-menopause and introduces us to the feisty four hormones and the ways in which we can help ourselves when it comes to finding balance

Find out more at happyhormonesforlife.com

If you'd like to work with a nutritionist on your hormone health, visit Nutritionist Resource 

This week we’re taking a moment to digest last week’s conversation on food and mood. From how you start your day to the way food makes you feel, answer the questions shared here to explore your personal link between food and mood.

Find nutrition professionals at Nutritionist Resource.

Marie Jarvis, Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach talks about Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), how it could impact you, and how working with a qualified nutrition professional may be able to help you.

Please note that everyone's experience will be different and consult your GP in the first instance. 

Find out more about Marie 

Visit Nutritionist Resource

Download the Happiful App here

Leanne Pero, community entrepreneur, breast cancer survivor, author, mentor and founder of Black Women Rising joins Happiful's podcast to talk about her life experiences, why counselling is so important to her and why she felt compelled to support other Black women living through cancer with Black Women Rising. 

Please note that there are conversations about childhood sexual abuse and trauma around cancer, so please be aware if these subjects are triggering for you. 

Follow Leanne

Find out more about Black Women Rising, The Movement Factory and Take Control. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Soul Guide and Moon Mentor Kirsty Gallagher joins Happiful's podcast to talk about realigning with yourself, lunar living and being authentic. 

Find out more about Kirsty

Kirsty's books

Follow Kirsty

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Martin Robinson, Founder of The Book of Man, journalist, editor, and author of You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be returns to I am. I have to talk about masculinity, going back to basics and being an entrepreneur.

You are Not The Man You Are Supposed To Be: Into The Chaos of Modern Masculinity

Find out more about The Book of Man

To find the right therapist for you, visit Counselling Directory

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Why can it be so hard to make friends as an adult? How can we move past the fear of rejection when making new connections? How can we maintain friendships when life gets busy? And how do we know when it’s time to let a friendship go?

In this week’s episode, we’re diving into all these questions and more. I speak with counselling psychologist Dr Rebecca O’Sullivan and my long-term friend Zoe Lavender-Stuart to find out more about the importance of friendship and how we can cultivate meaningful connections.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

The art of friendship maintenance

How to support your friends without sacrificing your mental health

Learn more about Rebecca on Counselling Directory and follow her on Instagram.

Editing by Jack Hoggard.

Career Elevation Coach and Life Coach Directory member Carly Ferguson joins Happiful’s podcast to discuss toxic work environments, how we can navigate them, taking responsibility for our career development and finding our way out of a work rut. Carly has some great words of wisdom  but more than that, she reiterates how we can all take control in our work lives, even when it might seem we can’t.

Read more about Happiful

Find out more about Carly

Follow Carly on Instagram

Contact Carly through the Life Coach Directory

Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

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If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Meditation teacher and author of A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century,  Gelong Thubten shares his thoughts on becoming a Buddhist Monk, being an advocate for meditation and his new career as an author. Thubten shares how he changed his life completely after becoming severely ill at the age of 21, and suffering burnout. 

For more information, visit Gelong Thubten's website

A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century is out now. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Writer and founder of Mental Health Mates Bryony Gordon joins I am. I have to talk about mental health, overwhelm, her new book No Such Thing As Normal and the liberating way she now thinks about her own mental ill health. 

Follow Bryony Gordon

Buy No Such Thing As Normal. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Award winning poet Hollie McNish talks to Happiful's podcast ahead of her panel session at the free and virtual Hay on Wye festival, and to mark the arrival of her brilliant new book - Slug and Other Things I’ve Been Told to Hate. She chats about pleasure in all its forms, societal conditioning, the simple things and the kindness of strangers.

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

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Shaun Flores, journalist, presenter, model, actor and TedX speaker shares his personal experience of OCD, how he views his experience to date and why talking about his OCD helps him as well as others.

TW: This is a really raw and honest conversation in which he talks about intrusive thoughts and suicide, so please be mindful if this could be triggering for you.

Getting Help

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

More information and help with OCD

OCD-UK

OCD Action

If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

See and read more of Shaun’s work

Follow Shaun Flores on Instagram

Books Mentioned by Shaun

Everything You Need to Know about OCD

Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears

Break Free from OCD

Jo Love, Mental Health Advocate, talks about switching off from social media, therapy Thursdays and post-natal depression

Jo, who co-hosts What I Wish I’d Known podcast along with  friends Jess and Lauren , openly discusses her recent dedication to taking a day away from social media (#SwitchOffSaturday), after experiencing severe burnout in 2018. 

If you'd like to read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit happiful.com and subscribe to receive a free e-edition of the magazine every month. 

If you are looking for therapy, you can find over 15,000 other counsellors across the UK by visiting the Counselling Directory. 

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 116 123. Help is available. 

You can find out more about Jo by following her on instagram @lobellaloves_jo and  listen to her great podcast What I Wish I’d Known. 

I am. I have. is produced by Happiful and hosted by Lucy Donoughue

 Andrea McLean author, broadcaster and CEO of This Girl is on Fire,  is the first guest on series four of Happiful’s podcast I am. I have.

Sharing the inspiration behind her new book, also entitled This Girl is on Fire, Andrea recalls her own experiences with burnout, suicidal thoughts and therapy and shares why seeking professional mental health support is absolutely one of the best things we can do for ourselves.

This podcast brought to you by Counselling Directory, Happiful Magazine and the Happiful App where you can find professional support groups and read the magazine on the go, for free. 

Note: Discussions around suicide

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org 

Download the Happiful App here

Martin Robinson, Founder and Editor of The Book of Man,  talks about men's health issues, workplace culture, fatherhood,The Book of Man's Festival of New Masculinity and his own experience of depression. 

Find out more about The Festival of New Masculinity and book tickets.

If you'd like to read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit happiful.com and subscribe to receive a free e-edition of the magazine every month.  You can buy the print magazine here

If you are looking for therapy, you can find over 15,000 other counsellors across the UK by visiting the Counselling Directory. 

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Dr Alex George talks about his new book Live Well Every Day, his love of bath bombs, taking time out and finding your passion and purpose.

We do talk about suicide within this podcast, so please be mindful if this subject could be triggering for you.

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Billie Dunlevy, an Integrative Therapist and Counselling Directory Member, joins Happiful's podcast to talk about low self esteem and the very practical ways  we can work on ourselves to grow this.  Billie makes the subject very easy to reflect upon and her words are as soothing as they are supportive and realistic. 

Read the accompanying article

Find out more about Billie on Counselling Directory

Find a therapist to help you with low self esteem

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Matt Holman, Founder of Simpila and friend of Happiful, shares his thoughts on his own experiences of mental ill health, becoming a Samaritan and his work now as a Mental Health First Aid Trainer.

Matt shares what Mental Health First Aid training is and how it can help.

Find out more about MHFA training

Follow Matt on Linkedin and YouTube

Find out more about Matt’s company Simpila. 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Rhiannon Lambert, one of the UK’s leading nutritionists, a bestselling author, host of the chart-topping ‘Food for Thought’ podcast, and writer of the recently released epic new book The Science of Nutrition Debunk the Diet Myths and Learn How to Eat Well for Health and Happiness, joins Happiful's podcast.

Rhiannon shares what drives her and why science and evidence based knowledge is power that has the potential for making real change, when coupled with self-knowledge. 

Find out more about Rhiannon's practice and The Science of Nutrition Debunk the Diet Myths and Learn How to Eat Well for Health and Happiness

Getting help

Find out more about working with a nutritionist

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App 

How can food impact our mood? From the pick-me-ups we get from comforting meals, to the impact of food on our gut microbiome, in today’s episode we learn more about this fascinating link. 

Learn more about Laura.

Learn more about Bryony.

Find nutrition support.

Listen to our past episode on eating.

Aaron Harvey, Co Founder of Made of Millions a global mental advocacy platform, speaks about his experiences of OCD, the methods he uses to live with intrusive thoughts and how he began to understand the condition after reading a piece by Rose Cartwright

Aaron discusses his commitment to spreading and sharing the knowledge to enable others to understand and manage their own mental heath. 

https://www.madeofmillions.com

I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue. 

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If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Cognitive hypnotherapist Sophie Parker discusses the subject of motivation, mindset and self-confidence in You Can Do This!

This webinar is the third of four in partnership with RED January, and we’ll be sharing each with you weekly. Also check out the Happiful YouTube channel to watch more

We hope you enjoy this session, and check out more at happiful.com and hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk or download the free Happiful App.

Find out more about Sophie Parker

The Help Hub is free emotional support, provided by volunteer therapists online or over the phone and is open to everyone at www.thehelphub.co.uk Founder Ruth Chaloner explains how the service works, how callers will be able to open up, and the importance of reaching out.

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To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists atwww.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Award-winning writer Tanith Carey shares fascinating expertise around the little-known subject of anhedonia - or feeling blah -as well as practical actions to increase feelings of joy. She digs deep into research, neuroscience and real world experiences of the feeling of numbness to understand how moden-day living is negatively affecting us, and how we can fight back.

Tanith's book Feeling 'Blah'?: Why Anhedonia Has Left You Joyless and How to Recapture Life's Highs is available to order now

Find out more about Tanith's work

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Today is our last conversation of season two and we’re ending on a high with a discussion about empowerment. Join me and my brilliant guests, coach Aaron McCarthy and advocate Laura Mathias, as we explore what empowerment truly means, the power of community and what helps us feel empowered as we navigate this thing called life. 

Learn more about Aaron McCarthy.

Learn more about Laura.

Identify your core values.

Find out how empowerment coaching can help.

Rachel Bambrough, Founder of Sup4 and mental health advocate, shares her love of stand up paddle boarding, the therapeutic impact of being on the water and the importance of laughing at yourself. This was recorded live at Wellbeing by the Lakes 

Find out more about Sup4 and follow on Instagram

Read Lucy's article about her experience of SUP - Falling isn't Failing

I am. I have will be back on Tuesday.

Kimberley Wilson, Chartered Psychologist and author of How To Build A Healthy Brain, shares her thoughts on whole body health, her love of the kitchen and interest in evolving research and sharing knowledge on how we can all protect our brains.

Find out more about Kimberley and  pre-order her book.

You can also listen to Kimberley’s own Stronger Minds podcast.

Find out more about Kimberley’s practice.

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To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Relationship Therapist and Psychotherapist Pam Custers joins Happiful & Counselling Directory's podcast to talk about how relationship counselling can continue online during this pandemic and the way to work with your therapist for the best outcomes 

Find Pam on Counselling Directory

Access over 12, 500 online and telephone therapists on Counselling Directory.

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To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Leading nutritionist, author and podcast host Rhiannon Lambert shares her story with Happiful’s I am. I have - How It Helps. 

Host of chart topping Food For Thought podcast, Rhiannon Lambert, joined Happiful’s I am. I have - How It Helps podcast to talk about Food and Mood, sharing thoughts on how what we eat can affect our day and how we feel. 

Find out more about Rhiannon and do check out her wonderful podcast and book - Food For Thought and Re-Nourish; A Simple Way To Eat Well. 

If you are looking for a nutritionist near you, visit Nutritionist Resource.

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If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Tally Rye is an advocate for intuitive movement, she's a non-diet, weight inclusive personal trainer, the host of The Train Happy Podcast and the author of  Train Happy and The Train Happy Journal. We talk about prioritising how we feel over how we look and why we should all be getting more adult playtime in our lives.

Find out more about Tally 

Follow Tally on Instagram

Order Train Happy and The Train Happy Journal

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Host of the Simply Vegan podcast, Holly Johnson, talks about her route to veganism, the festive treats she highly recommends and she busts some myths about living a vegan lifestyle.

Listen to the Simply Vegan podcast

Follow Simply Vegan on Instagram

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Anxiety is the topic of Lee Valls conversation with host Lucy Donoughue this week, and how counselling, as well as self care and sleep, can be greatly beneficial.

Find out more information about Lee

If you would like to find a counsellor near you, visit the Counselling Directory.

For more information on mental health and wellbeing, visit www.happiful.com and subscribe to receive a free e-edition of the magazine every month. 

If you are in need of immediate support, you can call the Samaritans, 24 hours a day, free of charge on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Thank you for listening, we hope you'll rate, review, subscribe and share your thoughts on social using #iamihave

Nikesh Shukla, novellist, editor, podcast host and author of the brilliant Brown Baby: A memoir of race, family and home which is out now, joins
I am. I have to talk about writing with heart, why mentoring is so important, and how becoming a Dad has had a profound effect in every area of his life.

Find out more about Nikesh Shukla

Buy Brown Baby: A memoir of race, family and home

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App 

Noel Bell discusses gambling addiction on I am. I have. We explore what problem gambling addiction is, the nuance around therapeutic intervention and Noel’s thoughts on supporting a loved one with a gambling issue. Noel is an addictions counsellor and a psychotherapist, who has spent over 20 years exploring and studying personal growth, recovery from addictions and inner transformation.

Find out more about Noel Bell

Call Gamcare free, 24 hours a day, 7 days  a week on 0808 8020 133  or visit gamcare.org.uk

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Dr Lee Valls, co-founder and Clinical Director of The London Practice returns to I am. I have - How it Helps, to discuss EMDR, who and how it can help.

Find Lee at thelondonpractice.com

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Jack Williamson is the CEO and Founder of Music and You, an organisation which works to support and strengthen the mental health and well-being of the wider music community. He’s a coach, therapist and has recently released his new book, the brilliantly titled The Shitty Committee. 

Find out more about Jack 

Buy Jack's book here

Follow Jack on instagram 

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

This week we’re taking the idea of an exhale episode quite literally as we invite you to exhale with us. Following on from last week’s conversation on relaxation, today we’re sharing a self-hypnosis for relaxation from hypnotherapist Amy Townsend. Set aside time to listen when you can fully switch off from the world for 10 minutes or so, and please don’t listen while driving. 

We hope you love it as much as we do.

Listen to last week's relaxation conversation.

Learn more about Amy.

Find more self-hypnosis tracks.

Award-winning podcasters and great friends Deborah James and Lauren Mahon kick off #Podfest4MentalHealth, a week-long programme of podcasts recorded to mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2019, and in support of the Mental Health Foundation

You, Me and The Big C co-hosts Deborah and Lauren talk about mental health and their experiences of living with cancer, feelings of overwhelm, health anxiety, grief after the death of their great friend and YMBC Founder Racheal Bland, and learning to live in their new normals. 

This is the first of five podcasts produced as part of #Podfest4MentalHealth

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave and #Podfest4MentalHealth

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This is a bonus track - a recording of our live  'Getting Going' webinar with Life Coach Neil Bailey. Hosted by Happiful’s Kat Nicholls, this webinar is the first of four in partnership with RED January, and we’ll be sharing each webinar on this channel.

Find out more about RED January and Happiful

Find out more about Life Coach Directory

Check out Neil Bailey and subscribe to his YouTube channel

Articles mentioned in the webinar

Do I need a counsellor or a coach? 

Ways to take care of yourself in Tier 5

Grace Victory, Happiful columnist, content creator, author, speaker and co-creator of @TheFamilyHood on YouTube joins I am. I have and shares in her wonderful raw and honest way, how she's managing life after life-challenging changes, the wonder and work that comes with Motherhood and considering her own spiritual journey.   

Find out more about Happiful Magazine

Read Grace's piece The Girl Who Lived

Read more from Grace  

Follow Grace on Instagram 

Follow The Family Hood

Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

Follow Happiful on Instagram

If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

This is a Brew Monday Bonus track. Happiful’s Ellen Hoggard catches up with Laura Adlington, Finalist of Great British Bake Off’s Class of 2020. They talk about lockdown, catching up with friends, the extended Bake Off family, Laura’s experiences of trolling, her listening role in the Samaritans and Brew Monday.

Brew Monday is so about much more than a cup of tea, it’s about checking in, reaching out and staying connected. For more information visit samaritans.org and if you need to talk to someone, you can call 116 123, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can also email jo@samaritans.org. 

Help is available.

Jonny Benjamin MBE, Founder of Beyond, award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer, vlogger and co-creator of the phenomenal new book The Book of Hope: 101 Voices on Overcoming Adversity joins Happiful's podcast I am. I have. 

Find out more about Jonny

Buy The Book of Hope: 101 Voices on Overcoming Adversity 

Jonny mentioned text and helplines including SHOUT and Young Minds

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Author and Illustrator Laura Brand joins Happiful's podcast to talk about permission to play as adults, listening to what our intuition tells us, curiousity and lifelong learning and her brilliant book The Joy Journal for Grown Ups: 50 homemade craft ideas to inspire creativity and connection.

Read more about Happiful

You can buy Laura’s Book The Joy Journal for Grown Ups:  50 homemade craft ideas to inspire creativity and connection

Find out more about Laura

Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

Follow Happiful on Instagram

If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

If you need support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Psychotherapist Lee Valls talks about anger management and counselling with host Lucy Donoughue. 

Drawing on his professional experience as Clinical Director of The London Practice, Lee speaks about how he came to be a therapist, perceptions of counselling, some of the causes of extreme anger and how therapy can help.  

You can find out more information about Lee

If you would like to find a counsellor near you, visit the Counselling Directory.

If you are in need of immediate support, you can call the Samaritans, 24 hours a day, free of charge on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Thank you for listening, we hope you'll rate, review, subscribe and share your thoughts on social using #iamihave

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Life Coach and author of Michelle Elman joins Happiful’s podcast to hares the benefits of boundaries in every area of our lives, how setting boundaries can be the antidote to people pleasing and her own willingness to talk about boundaries when it comes to romantic relationships.

Michelle’s Ultimate Guide to Establishing Healthy Relationship Boundaries

Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

Michelle’s book The Joy of Being Selfish, is out now

You can also pre-order her new book, The Selfish Romantic.

Michelle's Instagram

Michelle’s website

Follow Happiful on Instagram

If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

This live panel conversation recorded at Wellbeing by the Lakes focuses on improving our self worth, and is led by Happiful writer and founder of Blue Jay of Happiness, Kat Nicholls, Happiful’s Jay Morjaria, who also runs Very Clear Thinking and author of You are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness - Frances Trussell

I am. I have will be back on Tuesdays, so please follow and subscribe to get this as well as weekly bonus episodes recorded live on Wellbeing by the Lakes riverside stage as part of our Happiful Afternoon series. The wonderful Ollie from FB Music and Media Ltd captured and engineered our sound.

Emily Dean, broadcaster, writer and host of the hugely popular podcast Walking The Dog, speaks about about her new book Everybody Died, So I Got A Dog, loss as a teacher and her amateur psychologist tendencies.

You can buy Emily’s book now. 

If you’d like to read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit www.happiful.com and subscribe to receive a free e-edition of the magazine every month. 

If you are looking for therapy, you can find over 15,000 other counsellors across the UK by visiting the Counselling Directory. 

If you need to speak to someone immediately, you can call the Samaritans 24 hours a day, seven days a week or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available. 

This podcast is produced by Happiful Magazine and hosted by Lucy Donoughue.

Mental health advocate Grace Victory, ‘Mentally Yours’ co-host and journalist Yvette Caster, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation Mark Rowland, and actor and producer April Kelley took to the stage to share their own experiences, including living with bipolar disorder, representations of bisexuality, ways of managing your own mental health,  suicide and growth. This panel podcast closes the Podfest For Mental Health programme by discussing the changes they want to see in the world and how we can collectively make it easier for others to open up about mental health and get the help they need.

This is the  final podcast in a programme of five for Mental Health Awareness Week, recorded at Podfest For Mental Health

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave and #Podfest4MentalHealth

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 Life, Career and Business Coach, Carly Ferguson joins I am. I have to talk about working from home and the challenges it can throw up. She shares how, by developing rituals, putting  boundaries in place and questioning what busy is, you can move your current WFH situation to one that really works for you.

Find out more about Carly Ferguson

Visit Life Coach Directory

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

Writer, model and activist Jamie Windust shares their thoughts on taking joy in identity, the fear and thrill of speaking at TedXLondon Women and why it’s important to continually learn and evolve

Watch Jamie's TedXLondon Women talk

Follow Jamie and find out more about their work.

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Please rate, review, subscribe and share if you like what you hear, using #iamihave

If you would like a free e-edition of Happiful Magazine delivered to your inbox every month, subscribe at www.happiful.com

To read more about mental health and wellbeing, visit the app store and download the new Happiful app. You can read our magazine on the go as well as finding out more about therapy, wellbeing and other support available in your area.

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Last week we explored the importance of processing and explored various tools to help with this. In today’s exhale episode, we’re asking some questions to help you understand how you might process best, and ways you can build a reflection habit.

Find advice and support at Happiful.com

Skin - lead singer of British Rock Band Skunk Anansie, DJ and author of It Takes Blood and Guts joins I am. I have to talk about learning through lockdown, championing new bands and blazing a trail.

Skin at the Southbank Centre (4-11 March)

It Takes Blood and Guts - by Skin and Lucy O’Brien

Follow Skin

Skin on Absolute Radio

Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

Download the Happiful App here

What does resilience truly mean? In today’s episode, I’m chatting to resilience coach Alex Pett and F1 journalist Lawrence Barretto. We unpick the negative connotations of resilience, explore what it really is and what steps we can take to build it. 

Learn more about coaching on Life Coach Directory.

Learn more about Alex on Life Coach Directory and her website.

Follow Lawrence on social media: @lawrobarretto

The Book of Man  Editor Martin Robinson is joined by the founder of Andy’s Man Club Luke Ambler, actor Phoebe Torrance and TV presenter and explorer Aldo Kane. Each speak about their own mental health and how they now take action to help others, with Luke discussing ‘Andy Man’s Club’ the support network he set up after his friend died by suicide. All panellists discussed the impact negative self talk can have and the tools they use to improve their own mental health on a daily basis

This is the  third of five podcasts produced as part of #Podfest4MentalHealth

If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

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From eating ethically to feeling pressured to be a certain size, the topic of eating is a complex one. This week we’re taking a broad look at difficulties that can come with eating and how we can rediscover the joy of it. Joining me this week is nutritional therapist Kaysha Thomas.

Note: We do discuss eating disorders in this episode, so do take care listening.

Learn more about nutrition support.

Learn more about Kaysha.

Intuitive Eating book.

Editing by Jack Hoggard.

Samaritan’s Lucia Capobianco joins Happiful to talk about the work they do, what a conversation with the Samaritans might be like for someone who is experiencing suicidal thoughts, and how anyone can talk to a person in their life they believe is struggling.

TW: The subject of suicide is discussed in depth.

You can call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Find out more at Samaritans.org

Read more about the SHUSH model of speaking with people

Psychotherapist, author and podcast host Anna Mathur joins our podcast to talk about the pitfalls of comparison, learning to listen to your inner coach, finding a source of self compassion and understanding the universal margin for humanness.   

Anna articulates the daily struggle so many of us face and she offers simple, small and brilliant interventions to reset our minds and moods.    

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The Little Book of Calm for New Mums, Anna's brilliant new book can be ordered now.  

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If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.  

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Jay Blades, author of Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life, host and presenter of programmes including The Repair Shop and No Place Like Home and recent recipient of an MBE for services to crafts joins us on I am. I have to discuss mental health, vulnerability, community, his thirst for life and giving back.

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You can buy Jay's book "Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life"

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Visit Happiful for more great conversations about mental health and wellbeing

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If you’re looking for mental health support, you can find counsellors, life coaches, nutritionists and hypnotherapists via the Happiful app.

If you support now, call Samaritans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Help is available.

Dr Louise Newson is a leading light in the world of menopause education, policy and support. On this episode she shares her expert thoughts on perimenopause, mental health and the perimenopause and how to advocate for yourself. 

Preparing for the Perimenopause and Menopause by Dr Louise Newson is out now. 

Find out more about Dr Louise's work, including the Balance App, on her website My Menopause Doctor

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Getting help

Find more information on mental health helplines here

For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

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I am. I have from Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory launches on 7 January 2019.  Subscribe and join us. We'll hear from great people who have spoken about mental health, and learn more about the passions that shape their lives, as well as reflections on their own mental health. 

Fearne Cotton, Founder of Happy Place, mental health advocate, author and  highly acclaimed broadcaster joins Happiful’s podcast I am. I have to talk about Happy Place, life in lockdown and the lessons she’s taken from her career and love of creativity.

Find out more about Happy Place

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I am. I have is produced by Happiful Magazine and Counselling Directory, and is hosted by Lucy Donoughue.

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If you are looking for counselling, you can find details of local therapists at www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you are in need of immediate mental health support, you can call The Samaritans 24-hours a day on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

This podcast has been produced by Happiful and Fresh Air Production.

Adrienne Herbert joins Happiful's podcast to talk about  her love of encouraging people, the possibility of change and her podcast and book The Power Hour,

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Getting help

Download the Happiful App here

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For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk

If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org

In today’s exhale episode, we’re delving deeper into the topic of resilience. Last week we had a conversation about the true nature of resilience, what it entails and how we can build a resilient mindset. To help you reflect on what we discussed, today we’re sharing some journaling prompts. Take some time to give these some thought and see what comes up.

Learn more about the power of journaling: https://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/blog/2020/07/07/how-to-journal-effectively