We’ve mentioned before on Hello You, how physical health and mental health overlap. One can help make the other better, or worse. A change in one may well bring about change in the other.
Author (among many other things) Tracey Morgan knows all about this, from personal lived experience. She tells her story in this episode, touching on a range of topics including:
endometriosis
depression
hysteroscopy
women feeling dismissed or not taken seriously by doctors
dealing (or trying to) with not being able to have children
that feeling of ‘I can’t live like this any longer’
“My life has never panned out as I thought it would. I guess nobody’s does, does it?”
But Tracey has joy in her life, too, with her partner, her animals, her relationship with nature, and the happy places she goes to centre herself among the natural world.
I took the Hello You soundscape stereo rig to one of Tracey’s favourite places in Shropshire, to record the sound of being there. That makes up the second half of this episode. I hope it brings you the peace and contentment that Tracey finds there.
The recorder attracted the attention of this curious robin!
Also, listen out for a cuckoo who gets nearer and louder during the soundscape, and Max the curious spaniel who was intrigued by the mics and came for a sniffo!
Where do you find your joy?
I asked this question in the first half-dozen episodes of Hello You, and I think, now it’s springtime, it’s time to ask it again. So, where do you find joy? Let me know?
Links for this episode
Tracey J Morgan on Facebook, Amazon, Searching for John Candy
Haughmond Hill on Forestry England, Visit Shropshire
Bench!
Fancy a chat? I’m a good listener … and I’ll be sitting on a bench in the Dingle, in Shrewsbury’s Quarry (Park), next Monday. Which is a Bank Holiday, so it’s the perfect day to enjoy a day out.
I’ll be there from about 1pm, for an hour or so. Come along and we can record some conversations for an episode of Hello You which I’ll try to get out the following day.
Next episode of Hello You
I’ve got lots of great interviews already done which I’m eager to share with you, and I’m recording more over the next couple of weeks. In the next episode, I’ll be discussing whether you can coach people to be happy!
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Take care of yourself …
… and take care of the people around you. I hope someone’s taking care of you, too.
Hello You 34: "You make your own family, don't you?"