Helen Thorn

And I think that's what happened to me.

And I mean, I was just incredibly fortunate.

And I try to write that in my first book, The Divorce Book, and also this book, How to Face Big Change, is that, you know, I was incredibly fortunate to have these women who kind of went, look,

I got you.

I got you.

And so when I was sitting down to write it, I sort of thought what I want the book to do, because I've interviewed like 50 different women, is to feel like that gang.

It's like Avengers Assemble.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I just thought these are the nuggets.

These are the little golden bits of wisdom that I want to share.

But also, when I was writing it, it was a bit like choose your own adventure because I'd talk to these women and they'd go, oh, you need to talk to her.

Because I guess the overall thread is about how women find their power and their purpose after pain or living with pain and finding power and purpose.

And I just think those stories of hope, those stories of, you know, the phoenix rising from the ashes is the good stuff in life.

Like that's the medicine that we need.

And I wanted to kind of have one book that was sort of a collection of all those golden bits of advice and wisdom, but also a lot of vulnerability and a lot of

very brutal honesty.

I mean, there's one chapter about addiction and facing bad habits, and that's about how we can have a poor relationship with food, poor relationship with alcohol.

But also I wanted to highlight about spending and money, because that is something I hadn't talked about

and how I'd got into debt and, you know, I was getting letters from debt collectors and that was off the back of getting divorced because I didn't want anything to change for the kids and I kept spending to make myself feel better.

And it's a really modern-day problem with women that we're on our phones, we just think, oh, if I just buy this thing, I'll feel better.