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Is your routine a strait-jacket? How to enact change, with Donna Ashworth
Season 32 · Episode 8

Is your routine a strait-jacket? How to enact change, with Donna Ashworth

Happy Place · Fearne Cotton

February 10, 202553m 8sExplicit

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Show Notes

Do you dream of pivoting your career or lifestyle later in life? Poet Donna Ashworth did just that. She began to question the busy, fast-paced, perfectionist lifestyle she assumed was the norm, and decided to start posting and performing her beautiful poetry in her 40s...

 

In this chat with Fearne, Donna explains how she copes with the nerves that come with doing something so new, including hypnotherapy and simply admitting out loud that she’s anxious. She also reflects on how she realised she’d been living with depression and eating disorders for a long time.

 

If you’re not happy it’s up to you to apply change or you can’t expect different outcomes. Donna talks through how to work out if your routine is deliciously comforting for you, or if it’s become a strait-jacket that’s holding you back. Plus, she shares why it’s helpful for others if you’re able to disclose your own ugly truths and flaws.

 

Donna’s latest book of poetry, To The Women, is out on the 13th of February.

 

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