You Inside Out

Sonja Lewis chats with Hope Virgo, multi award winning body positivity campaigner, in a candid conversation about the importance of taking care of your body, especially during tough times.

The podcast offers teenage girls and women practical and useable info on how to stay positive under a dark cloud. From tiny steps to bolder ones, the podcast covers the importance of keeping the mind and body moving.

Also, the two women discuss managing social media. Essential listening for teenage girls and women!

Sonja Lewis has a timely conversation with UK Kids Coach Naomi Richards about how to feel accepted by both friends and family during an intense period.

The podcast offers teenage girls and children essential information on self-care, keeping a balance and taking life one day at a time literally.

Also, it gives parents and guardians tips on how to navigate a new and unstable territory to ensure that children do not feel rejected in their families during such times.

Essential listening for all teenagers as well as their parents and guardians.

Sonja Lewis meets up (virtually) with parenting coach Sue Atkins to chat about how to maintain and nurture friendships during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Full of essential advice as well as practical tips, the podcast offers information on how to reframe the situation to ensure healthy friend and family relationships.

How To Nurture Friendships During A Crisis also offers great tips on self-care and covers how to deal with unhealthy relationships and how to support a friend who is in a dark place.

Essential listening for all teenagers as well as their parents and guardians.

Struggling with socialising? Chalking it up to being shy or eccentric? For more than ten years, best-selling author and award winning blogger Claire Eastham was plagued by such questions before one day collapsing into a panic attack and discovering that she had social anxiety, perhaps one of the most misunderstood anxiety disorders of all times.

In a candid conversation with Sonja Lewis, Eastham discusses social anxiety's gruelling impact on emotional and mental health and offers crucial information and practical tips to teenagers, who suffer the disorder disproportionately, on how to manage the condition for a normal life.

A must listen resource for teachers and parents and guardians alike.

With children operating in the online space as young as ten and increasing two-fold by twelve, internet safety has become of paramount and urgent importance.

That's why Sonja Lewis talks with one of Britain's e-safety pioneers Charlotte Aynsley about how to stay safe in the most visited place of all times.

The two women have a candid discussion about why body image is a significant safety issue for teenage girls. The podcast also covers the emotional and mental ramifications of sexting and cyber bullying, as well as the task of policing and governance.

The podcast is full of timely, topical and practical information for teenagers and their guardians alike. A must listen!

The modern day pressures that teenage girls face are not only mounting up to anxiety but also robbing them of good sleep, which has a knock-on effect on their physical and mental well-being, leading to poor quality life experiences.

Sonja Lewis untangles the subject in a candid conversation with sleep expert Dr Nerina Ramlakhan to reveal why sleep matters. The podcast offers simple and straight forward tips to reset the body's sleep system for a better quality life. A must listen for everyone!

Amid concerns about teenage girls growing up too fast, Sonja Lewis has some straight talk with Lindsey Turnbull, founder of Miss Heard Media, about how girls can exercise their rights to rise above the pressures around body image, sexualization and all the rest.

The podcast offers advice and tips on embracing youth and setting boundaries to live your best life now.

A must listen podcast for teenage girls the world over.

Amid growing concerns about the unprecedented pressures today's teenage girls face, Sonja Lewis has a candid conversation with Jillian 'JJ' Simmons about emotional abuse in its varied, insidious forms, including 'bullying' at school.

The podcast sheds light on the tricky nature of emotional abuse, which sometimes masquerades as love, and its impact on mental and physical health. Author of Without Bruises, JJ shares tips on managing self-esteem and feeding your mind to overcome the unrivalled challenges, exacerbated by the unregulated use of social media.

A must listen for everyone, especially vulnerable teenagers.

Sonja Lewis has an inspirational conversation with three-time Paralympic medallist Elizabeth Wright on how character building can change your life.

Full of gems and delightful surprises, this podcast offers teenage girls insight on how to use character strengths to manage undue modern day pressures. An important aid memoir for teenage girls and everyone else on the planet, too.

Sonja Lewis chats with rapid transformational therapist, nutritionist and lifestyle coach Robyn Spens about what personal development has to do with developing your full potential.

More than meets the eye, Robyn confirms and points out that developing personal skills such as self-confidence can be the difference in coping and faltering in a difficult situation.

Full of information on how to achieve your personal best, On Personal Development looks at the importance of nutrition, exercise, hydration and sleep, and offers hot tips on how to say no when it really needs to be said and so much more.

This final podcast in series 2 is a must listen for teen girls and boys, too, and parents and guardians.