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Jan 2022
1h 9m

Freya North

Fearne Cotton
About this episode

It’s important to take time to figure out how to trust your own opinions of yourself rather than believing other peoples’ opinions of you. This is something author Freya North has been meditating on recently.


In this chat, she and Fearne talk about how many of us are used to functioning at an extremely high level of stress without realising we’re pushing ourselves to breaking point, and Freya explains why she now gives as much attention to her emotional self as her physical self.


Freya’s 15th novel, Little Wing, is published on 20th January by Welbeck, and is available in hardback or ebook.


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