Fearne Cotton

Or are they going to think this because of that?

And you can totally send yourself mad worrying about it.

But it is so deeply ingrained in all of us.

Is it possible for everybody to break those cycles?

I need to be brave and and face those yeah I mean parenting's gonna do that I had it last night where I was doing a cycle and I knew I was doing it I uh the tv wouldn't work and it was like eight o'clock at night and I promised my daughter that we would finish watching Mean Girls because we'd started it the week before and I thought that's gonna be lovely I've had the busiest day at work it's gonna be my moment just to like switch off for a

And I had a tantrum.

I was like, nothing works in this house.

And nothing works in my life.

This has been the worst day ever.

And I was like, why am I doing it?

I know I'm doing it.

I was so aware in the moment that I was doing it.

The only way I could turn it around was just to go, really sorry that I had a tantrum.

And I'm just really tired.

And that's where I'm at today.

And that's my first step into the humbling notion of making that change in that habit.

Because...

we're all so hardwired to just do the thing that actually doesn't help us out in the long run.

I hadn't really thought of it because I was weirdly talking to one of my friends who's in therapy at the moment.

I mean, I go to therapy, so we talk about it a lot.