Spring clean your life: how to make a fresh start

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Is your lifestyle in need of a spring clean? Maybe now’s the moment to pivot your career, pick up healthier habits, or embrace a new life you wouldn’t have chosen, but now need to make the best of?

In this episode, Fearne reflects on the Happy Place episodes that’ll give you a bit of a push – or a bit of inspiration – to get you making that fresh start you’ve been thinking about for ages...

In this episode you’ll hear from –

-Poet Donna Ashworth on making a slow, organic career change later in life, and re-finding who you really want to be under the crap that real life shovels on top of you

-TV personality Mille Mackintosh on giving up alcohol and acknowledging the big moment when you realise something needs to change

-Author Raynor Winn on being forced into a huge lifestyle change by factors out of your control, and choosing to make the best of a bad situation

-Musician Shania Twain on how illness can change you, and how to come back stronger after a huge setback

-Musician Kesha on rethinking and embracing a different side of your character, so your personality reflects who you really are, not who others want you to be

-Charlotte Church on her career change from singer to healer, and how ceremony can help move you into a lifestyle re-birth

If you liked this episode of Happy Place, you might also like:

How to stick two fingers up to beauty standards

How to laugh when you’ve been to hell and back

Saying no: more boundaries, less people pleasing

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. Today is your lifestyle in need of a little bit of a spring clean.
0:09.3	Maybe now's the moment to pivot your career, pick up healthier habits or embrace a new life you wouldn't have chosen, but now need to make the best of.
0:17.2	I was angry. I was that kind of drunk person at the party that other people are trying to
0:22.4	like get away from. They were big warning signs. They gave us a week to pack 20 years of life
0:27.6	into boxes and leave. Everything that we'd built over the previous 20 years gone. There is a fine line
0:34.1	between making people happy and then being like a people pleaser at the expense
0:40.7	of yourself. I didn't intend to do it. It was so organic that I don't even know how it happened.
0:47.4	I can get caught sometimes in a dark place, but somewhere along the way, I climb out of it.
0:53.5	You know what? Even more so the new Year, I think spring can feel like a beautiful time for a bit of a fresh start.
0:59.8	It's all grey and miserable at the start of the year.
1:02.4	So motivation can be pretty low, but I certainly find that I get a real surge of excitable and vibrant energy when the sun comes out and everything in nature is doing
1:13.2	its lovely blooming thing. So today, this episode is for you if you're in need of a bit of a push
1:20.1	or a bit of inspiration to get you making that fresh start you've been thinking about for ages.
1:26.1	You're going to hear from Donna Ashworth about
1:28.2	making a slow, organic career change later in life. Then Millie McIntosh about the big moment
1:34.2	she realised she had to stop drinking and Raina Wynne on coping with a huge change you wouldn't
1:40.1	have chosen for yourself. That is a lovely one. Shanaya Twain chats about coming back stronger from illness.
1:46.6	Kesha talks about embracing a different side of her personality.
1:50.3	And Charlotte Church, who's also done a massive career pivot actually,
1:54.0	talks through the ceremonies that help her basically rebirth herself into a new life.
2:01.7	It's time to get ready for whatever your day may bring.
2:04.9	So why not take a moment for you to nourish your skin?
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