Several members of The Shift have asked if I would start a thread every time I drop a new episode so those of you who want to can have a chat about some of the themes raised. So here we are! I’d love to know what you think. (And if there are back episodes you’d like to chat about, let me know and I will add a thread for those too.)
My guest today knows a thing or two about being single, and she’s hear to tell you that there’s more than one way to live an emotionally fulfilling life.
is a journalist who made a perfectly decent living testing things so you didn’t have to - mascara, spa retreats, you get the gist - until the decision to spend a year testing self help books changed her life in ways she’d never expected.The resulting book, Help me! Has since sold hundreds of thousands of copies, been translated into 25 languages and been optioned for TV. Clearly something about her funny, candid, vulnerable approach struck a chord.
But as she turned 40, Marianne still had questions. Namely, why were all her friends merrily ticking boxes on the life to-do list and she… wasn’t… love (whatever that meant) theeluded her, so she decided to try the same approach.
In Love me! She looks at society’s obsession with marriage, kids and domesticity and whether you can love and be loved without them.
Marianne joined me to talk about rewriting the stories we tell ourselves about love and sex and why there’s more than one soulmate for everyone (and, no,) they don’t have to be sexual. We also talked anxiety, growing up ginger, being childfree by choice, tantra and, the kicker, why sex is not a reward for being young and hot.
Chat away!
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