On the 122nd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I’m delighted to welcome our guest, Felicity Reed. Felicity is a Psychotherapist and expert in leadership, who, alongside a private practice and consultancy, has worked as a clinical lead across the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector, working at the sharpest edges of trauma and health inequalities, supporting people facing life’s toughest circumstances to turn their pain into power.

She first came into therapy because of her own difficulties and ADHD, and uses this lived experience of messiness to bring humour, joy and humanity to the trickiest places of the human soul. She is the founder of Mic Drops: tiny pops of tools, techniques and training that highlight health inequalities, and demonstrate tiny but powerful actions each of us can take to improve social justice. She also shares tiny and powerful daily tips on Instagram to de-mystify therapy and make mental wellbeing easier.

In this wonderful conversation, we explore the themes of connection, soul, vulnerability, and embracing and sharing our messiness. We explore what type of relating is possible on the other side of this openness.

Ultimately, this episode points to a richness of life that can be experienced when we allow ourselves to be seen.

For more of Felicity's work, check out the following:
Felicity's website: https://www.felicityreed.co.uk/

Felicity's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/felicitypsychotherapy/

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00:00 How do I be true to myself?

03:30 How we can lose ourselves

07:00 The shame we feel when not ourselves

10:00 When our stories and reality don’t align

15:00 The response to withholding our truth

21:00 Soothing ourselves

24:30 When two humans meet in presence

29:30 We simply need each other

34:15 The gift of our sharing our humanity

38:20 Moving from opinions to soulful connection

43:25 Words that we feel

47:00 Love and creating space for our being

52:00 Summary and what is a good life for Felicity?