Postcards From Midlife

Could a four-week reset help you feel better than ever or even change your life? This week, Lorraine & Trish welcome nutritionist & functional medicine practitioner Rose Ferguson, former 90s model & author of The Reset: The 4-Week Plan to Feel Better Than Ever onto the show to talk about how to turn around sleep, improve gut health & prepare your body for weight loss. The expert the A-list has on speed dial also explains how to work out what foods might be stressing your body & her small daily habits that can help you beat fatigue, burnout & low mood (while still enjoying a knees up!).

Plus: The Agony Aunts (aka Lorraine & Trish) solve your parenting, people pleasing & dressing dilemmas

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Are we talking about mental health more than ever, yet understanding it less? Consultant clinical psychologist, Times columnist and broadcaster Prof Tanya Byron thinks so. She joins Trish & Lorraine to talk about her new book, You Are Not a Diagnosis: The Therapy-Speak Trap and the Lost Art of Listening to Ourselves. In their warm & helpful conversation she explains how to cope with ordinary distressing emotions, the difference between a mental health ‘experience’ and a mental health ‘condition’ & when seeking a diagnosis is genuinely useful for you, your child or another loved one. She also shares her tried & tested practical tools for the ‘messiness of being human’ when you feel overwhelmed, overstretched and emotionally exhausted.

Plus: find out how Trish ended up all at sea with the Brazilian navy & why Lorraine is pushing her husband out of an aeroplane!

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Surrounded by people but still feel lonely? Bestselling author Meg Mason (Sorrow and Bliss) joins Lorraine and Trish to talk about how she wrote her new novel Sophie Standing There, a story of love, loneliness and life after divorce. Meg shares her own feelings of acute loneliness and the shame that comes with it for many women, as well as what saved her. She also reveals how midlife wisdom has made her more compassionate towards herself, why she is finally able to ask for what she wants in life and what she really thinks of her readers getting Sorrow And Bliss tattoos.

Plus: Lorraine’s empty nest surprise & how the universe conspired this week for Trish

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Meet Dr Sam Bunting, the leading dermatologist who says you don't need facials, a silk pillowcase or have to drink gallons of water to get bright, glowing skin after 40. As well as busting midlife skincare myths, the author of Flawless: Your Ultimate Guide to Bright, Clear Skin, tells Lorraine & Trish about the science behind her four step simple & cost effective daily routine & answers listeners’ questions about rosacea, adult acne, fine lines, SPF, Botox, fillers, pigmentation & menopausal changes. Listen now if you want to find out whether your skincare routine is on the right track & know how to separate the products that work from those that are a waste of money.

Plus: Pole dancing in your fifties & what to do if a looming big birthday is getting you down

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TV’s Julia Bradbury was diagnosed with breast cancer at 51. Then she went on a mission to give herself the best shot at a long, healthy life. The mum of three joins Lorraine and Trish to share the screening tests worth having, how she quit alcohol and tamed her sugar addiction, and the free daily habits any midlifer can follow, all without overwhelm, guilt or shame. Because sometimes, you just have to eat the goddamn cake!

Julia's book, Hack Yourself Healthy, is out now in paperback.

Plus: Trish got scammed (find out how), second-time-round wedding dressing, and six things to look forward to this autumn.

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