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How to have Extraordinary Relationships

How to have Extraordinary Relationships
Author: Lucy Cavendish
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Well we have all wondered about it haven't we?
And "Relationship" is a big word.
Because if you think about it, we all have a relationship with everything don't we?
Join us for fun facts, deep dives and every conceivable mind broadening angle of relationships.
Reach out to Lucy on www.lucycavendishlovecoach.com
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Send us a text Imogen Edwards-Jones (born June 1968) is a British author, journalist, and broadcaster best known for her sharp, witty exposés of hidden worlds and her bestselling Babylon series. Born in Birmingham, Edwards-Jones grew up in the Midlands and was educated at Malvern Girls’ College before going on to study Russian at the University of Bristol. Her fascination with language and culture led her to spend time in Russia, an experience that would later inspire her first book, The Tami...
Send us a text Key points of the episode: Her big news announcement!How the environment affects the child in their future relationships.How all have the conflicts and disagreement, but tools to help and heal.Unconscious unspoken agreements.A surprising health statistic.And an even more surprising relationship statistic.How therapy is not an easy fix, but when stuck with will lead to stronger bonds eventually.How working through what you dislike shows commitment to that relationship - once no ...
Send us a text Miss Erica Storm, formerly Madam Storm, is a former International Dominatrix. Her infamous Mistress training was featured in a Louis Theroux documentary on channel 4, “Sex Actually” with Alice Levine, where she showcased her teaching and coaching of female empowerment using the art of BDSM to help women find their voice and be sexually liberated. Miss Erica has recently launched her Power of the Pussy Retreat and the “Yoni Circle”, both of which were featured in the...
Send us a text Key points of the episode: The root of the "Burned Haystack" methodHow women think online dating is going to be bad - and it's worse!Her lightbulb moment.How she is helping women.The science and application of "rhetorical patterns"How to mainly spot the toxic patterns, and avoiding self gaslighting.The "test and apologise" technique.How pre burned haystack most of her dates were a waste of time, and how less but better matches come when you follow the 10 "rules",Example: Rule#1...
Send us a text Barbara Ayozie Fu Safira is a remarkable Italian-Nigerian creative powerhouse based in London. She is celebrated as a creative director, art director, costume designer, and fashion stylist, whose work spans across editorial, commercial, film, music, and more. Her styling and creative direction have appeared in prestigious publications, including Vogue Italia, GQ, Elle, Glassbook, Metal, and Aesthetica. Her editorial work “Unfolded Love” was published in both Vogue I...
Send us a text Wendy Holden, also sometimes known as Taylor Holden, is an experienced author and novelist with more than thirty books published, fifteen of which are bestsellers. She has also had numerous works transferred to radio and television, and four of her books have been optioned for film. A journalist for eighteen years, her first novel THE SENSE OF PAPER was published by Random House, New York, to widespread critical acclaim and has recently been released as an ebook. Her sec...
Send us a text From her website: I don't just study longevity — I've lived the cost of ignoring it. After 25 years in medicine, leadership, and entrepreneurship, I've seen firsthand what relentless drive can do to a body. But I’ve also seen what precision, strategy, and lifestyle mastery can rebuild. My journey began at the University of London, Guys and St Thomas’, where I earned my MBBS in medicine and surgery. A fascination with the body and brain led me to deepen my expertise further — ga...
Send us a text Helen Margaret Lederer (born 24 September 1954 is a British comedian, writer and actress who emerged as part of the alternative comedy boom at the beginning of the 1980s. Among her television credits are the BBC2 sketch series Naked Video and BBC One's Absolutely Fabulous, in which she played the role of Catriona. In 2015, her comedy novel Losing It was published by Pan Macmillan It was nominated for the P.G. Wodehouse Comedy Literary Award and the Edinburgh Book Festival First...
Send us a text From her website: Since I could first hold a pencil I have been writing stories. It was my most enjoyable hobby and one I never expected would become a career in adulthood. I am so lucky to do something I adore and luckier still that you, my readers, enable me to do it. For that I am incredibly grateful. Over the last four decades my love of storytelling has never changed, the only thing that has changed is my audience (once only me), which now includes you! I hope to carry you...
Send us a text From the website: My determination to reduce my dementia risk grew out of my personal story. I spent 12 years caring for my mum, who had severe dementia. When she was diagnosed, I was 36 years old with a toddler, new born and a full-time job. My world was turned upside down – not only was I mum, wife, boss, I was now a carer too. What made this even harder to bear was that, as a teenager, I’d watched my mum going through the same thing with her mother. Now, I have two teenage d...
Send us a text From her website: Anne Sebba Historian Welcome to 2025! Worries about Covid may have receded but war, brutality and uncertainty are still with us four years on. So it has seemed fitting that I have been researching a new book about a grim subject for grim times… the extraordinary story of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. It’s about female solidarity and the redemptive power of music as well as survival against the odds and will be published in March 2025 in the UK to...
Send us a text WELCOME TO SEASON 3! Sarah Rosemary Vine was born in Swansea, Wales on 16 April 1967. When she was five, the family moved to Italy, initially staying in Rome before moving to Frascati. After graduation, Vine worked in customer services for the retailer Hobbs Ltd. She then worked in a series of jobs within journalism, including TV listings sub at the Daily Mirror and features editor for the magazine Tatler before joining The Times. She was promoted to arts editor at that n...
Send us a text In this anonymous episode we talk to "Mary" who shares her experience of coercive control. **TRIGGER WARNING** How coercive control is hard to notice until you are out of it.How it tends to happen slowly.How, 30 years ago, the words "Coercive Control" wew not even in our lexicon.The stages of coercive control and how red flags can be innocently and easily missed.How she hated being married and how it started to go wrong in a year.How it lasted over two and a half decades.When t...
Send us a text Since studying at Central Saint Martin’s in the 90s, she has been farming, and planting, and growing, and mothering, but always, at heart, painting. She sees myself as someone who watches, quietly, but also as someone who gets on and does, so I’ve grown multiple biodiverse wildlife corridors around her home in Oxfordshire, and painted magical and challenging moments. She is surrounded by plants at all times, and whenever something takes her eye and moves her, she works wi...
Send us a text Her therapeutic experienceHer struggles and philosophy on relationships.How she cares much less about how she looksWHIPS- What is that?(not what you think!)Her current interesting and fun philosophy. Reach out to Bibi and see her work here: www.bibilynch.com Support the show Has this podcast inspired you and would you like to learn more? You can reach out to Lucy, love coach, relationship counsellor, couples counsellor extraordinaire and author of "How to have extraordinary ...
Send us a text Lindsay Nicholson has worked Editor-in-Chief of Good Housekeeping magazine and is now Editorial Director of the National Magazine Company. Her articles have appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines including the Guardian and the Observer. From her website: It’s natural to fear it - but to be alive is to experience loss. The only way to avoid loss is to die first. (Not recommended!) I am a former magazine editor, now a writer and researcher, who has experienced tr...
Send us a text With 25 years of experience as a Telegraph columnist, chef and food writer Xanthe Clay provides guidance on everything from roasting a Christmas turkey to baking the perfect loaf of bread. As the Telegraph's thrift expert, Xanthe can regularly be found taste-tasting staple supermarket products to find the best value, as well as taking a deep-dive into topical issues such as ultra processed foods, ethical farming and sustainability. How she will eat all things- apart from one!...
Send us a text Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, writer and podcaster who has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Saturday Live, Unsafe Space and Four Thought and TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and Sunday Morning Live. Her latest book The Breakup Monologues is based on her acclaimed podcast (a British Podcast Award nominee and recommended by Chortle, The Observer, Psychologies and more) and is published globally by Bloomsbury. She regularly contrib...
Send us a text From her biog: "I didn’t come across anyone who practised yoga until my first job in London in 1994. She was called Catherine, and there was obviously something suspect about her. Her erect posture seemed a deliberate challenge to my already slouchy one. Even now, 20 years on, I can remember how her eyes twinkled and her skin shone. And, gosh, she was serene. Always smiling. Which I somehow also took as a personal affront. And all this in an office ruled over by a tyrant...
Send us a text She began her career as a fashion journalist, but her work has broadened into confessional writing. Jones divides opinion. While she has gained positive responses, a "beautifully natural writer, as well as a funny one" according to Deborah Ross in The Independent, some of her articles have been fiercely criticised A former editor of Marie Claire, she has been on the staff of The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard. As of 2019 Jones writes columns for the Daily Mail and The Ma...