Katriona O'Sullivan

And I still continued.

So sometimes knowing that you're healthy doesn't really matter, but I am really healthy and I'm really happy.

That's the other thing to say.

Like, it sounds like dark stuff, but this story is about being happy.

I'm loved.

I'm really joyful and I have a really great life.

And I'm really, really delighted that I've achieved love and happiness.

And that's the message of the book.

It's like, even if you want to shrink yourself, it's possible to be happy.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, so I grew up in a home.

If you don't know my story, I grew up in a home that was marred by my parents' heroin addiction.

And what that meant was I was hungry for most of my childhood.

And I don't just mean for food.

I was hungry for a hug, for someone to teach me I was valuable, to make me feel safe.

But food hunger was a big issue in my home.

And so I start the book talking about, I suppose, how it felt to have a body that was hungry as a child and how that feeling interfered with everything.