Hello, this is Emma Ganon, and thank you for listening to this podcast. I just wanted to let you know that my new book, The Success Myth, Letting Go of Having It All, is out on May the 18th.

I think it's my best book yet, so I'm excited for it to come out. And the book unpicks the eight success myths from happiness to money, to productivity, to celebrity, to the idea of finally arriving, and how chasing a version of success that doesn't align with your values can really take you off track, and this book is about getting back to yourself.

Breaking free, finding a new way forward, and it's available on May the 18th. If you love this podcast, you'll love the book, and it's available soon from all good bookshops, so you can order yours now. I hope you like it.

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Hello, and welcome back to Control Out Delete. This is a replay of an episode from 2020 with Laura Dockville, an award-winning author and illustrator.

What have I done is an incredibly moving and honest memoir on motherhood, mental health, and postpartum psychosis.

In this episode, we discuss Laura's journey, her recovery, what it's like when a raw blog article about your mental health goes viral, and why this book is a love letter to her family and friends.

I hope you enjoy re-listing this episode or discovering it for the first time.

I have not read a book this quickly in years, and I just want you to know that this is just the most incredible book. I think I've read in years. Thank you.

Oh, and well, thank you for reading it. I saw that post yesterday, and I felt, especially in this time, like, anyway, to hear anything from anybody, you know, is so dear to your heart.

And then to hear that was just, it made my whole day, so thank you. Well, actually, it made more than that my whole year of week.

Oh, it's just, I think it's just going to be a mega book for a lot of people, and I just think you're starting a whole new conversation, and it's so needed.

But I thought I'd start off with a bit of an obvious question, but just because I'm a fan of your work in general, and I've been following you and your work for years, and I love your novels and your young adult books and your poetry.

And I just wondered how was this different, the kind of the actual writing of it.

I think the thing that was most difficult, obviously writing on my phone was really different in a practical sense.

So I just thought if I did it on my phone, then I could do it around jet when he was sleeping, and it felt a lot more, it didn't feel as formal.

And I, the illness also, I never experienced mental illness before it took me by such a shock, not that it wouldn't even if you have experienced it before.

But I kind of just didn't want it to like infect any of my other areas of work, and I felt like it was on my laptop.

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