Louise Thompson

And...

I then felt really confident this year going into another cycle because we didn't get the results that we wanted.

But I was like, oh, maybe I'm just like lucky.

And I just I sort of haven't found it that tough with all the hormones.

And then I did another one this year and it was it served me all of the worst things that you can go through in terms of feeling really like up and down and weak emotionally.

and emotional, and the emotions are irrational.

You know, you kind of like have these little conversations in your head or like with the monkey in the shop, you're like, I don't think this is me.

But something's, there's some fire coming out of me right now and I'm like calling people that work in the clinic at like ungodly times of the day being like seeking reassurance, like secretly, like a kind of addiction.

So, yeah, that's kind of where we're at with that and we'll see what happens.

whatever you can you know a good base level of mental health to get you through this next bit what do you need in place to ensure that happens it's a very good question because I'm living through it kind of at the moment um I think that as I started to get better so sort of like three years postpartum I sort of like rebounded back into this place where I was in sort of turbo um

distract mode so constantly trying to grow something and achieve something and be busy or grow my team or have you know deeper conversations and like looking for distraction everywhere ultimately and becoming almost feeling quite trapped because I used to do a lot of like physical exercise and movement and not being able to really do that because anytime I do that now I have

awful like symptoms and and I sort of start bleeding and stuff it's not very nice so that's felt really hard but I've like I've really crammed the mental stimulation in whereas with this process I've felt really fatigued and I actually have just I've like relinquished that like need for speed basically like I've actually just gone you know what

If I have to just cancel all my important or exciting things for January, that's okay.

Oh, my God, yeah.

Yeah.

And, like, even if that rolls a little bit into February, I'm like, what do I actually... Who cares if you do it for a year?

Who cares?

Like, I've been through so much, enough to, like, last a lifetime.

Yes.

That I don't need any more badges.