Louise Thompson

I have other moments where I feel like a complete imposter and then I think, God, I've got to come on Fern's podcast today and talk about this really significant issue.

And then I remember actually that every individual, you know, we're all just people.

We're all...

individual people and I can only do my best.

I am learning a lot and I am being a spokesperson, like a mouthpiece for the 1.5 million followers that I have.

I've done polls, I'm creating forms, I'm trying to do my own research.

But I suppose...

You know, all people, you've got to start somewhere, like everybody that's successful in some sort of pursuit, whether it is a petition or, you know, writing some life changing book like that all more often than not starts with a story that means something really significant to somebody.

So I do feel like a bit of a kind of a pioneer in this space.

But it does.

It makes me feel emotional.

And there are people that will say, God, you know, you don't have to do this.

Like, are you are you right?

Like, is it going to be too much?

I do feel like four years on, you know, I've had the experience.

the year of survival.

I've had the year of kind of acceptance and then like the learning and the overcoming.

And this is, I suppose, what post-traumatic growth really looks like is feeling equipped to take on this big challenge.

And I think that there are a lot of people, you know, I'm not the first person to walk in these shoes.

I think so many of the people that I admire, whether it's like Matt Haig, you know, writing his books about depression, a lot of people that have been through something really awful decide that they...