Dr. Julie Smith

It's you talking into a camera.

kind of pretending it's a person.

And it's actually quite a sort of lonely existence in some ways.

You know, I'll do the school drop off in the morning and there's just me at home by myself all day.

Or just my computer and my cat or something, you know, and it's sort of, and so it's a real kind of, you can almost forget that people are watching sometimes that, yeah, or someone sort of calls you in the street and you think, oh my God, people actually saw that video.

How embarrassing.

Yeah, hugely.

And where I had a quite, you know, a small, simple insular life where I had my really small practice, it was just me, you know, control of my time with the family and everything.

I was confident that I knew I was good at what I was doing, but I was in that place where I probably wasn't challenging, overly challenging myself until I was doing this stuff.

And then I was well out of my comfort zone.

And so I had to use what I was preaching and actually test the stuff and make sure I was

you know, does this work?

And, you know, because I was actually having to use a lot of the skills myself or I would then, you know, reread old books and it would feel completely different because suddenly I was in the deep end and I was sort of really, yeah, just outside of my comfort zone.

And so in some ways it was great, you know, it was a great test of does this stuff actually work and which, you know, which bits work for me and which don't.

Without a doubt.

Yeah, that's a really interesting question, actually, because I kind of think I mean, I've been reading your book and God, thank you, which I love, by the way.

I'm not finished yet.

I'm just loving that personal story because partly, you know, I relate to a lot of it.

And I think a lot of people will because there's that sense of, you know, these are things that a lot of girls particularly, I think, struggle with and challenges that we work through.

And as we age, I think we find our ways around it or we find ways to connect.