What is a Good Life? #122 - When Our Messiness & Souls Meet with Felicity Reed

On the 122nd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I’m delighted to welcome our guest, Felicity Reed. Felicity is a Psychotherapist and expert in leadership, who, alongside a private practice and consultancy, has worked as a clinical lead across the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector, working at the sharpest edges of trauma and health inequalities, supporting people facing life’s toughest circumstances to turn their pain into power.She first came into therapy because of her own difficulties and ADHD, and uses this lived experience of messiness to bring humour, joy and humanity to the trickiest places of the human soul. She is the founder of Mic Drops: tiny pops of tools, techniques and training that highlight health inequalities, and demonstrate tiny but powerful actions each of us can take to improve social justice. She also shares tiny and powerful daily tips on Instagram to de-mystify therapy and make mental wellbeing easier.In this wonderful conversation, we explore the themes of connection, soul, vulnerability, and embracing and sharing our messiness. We explore what type of relating is possible on the other side of this openness.Ultimately, this episode points to a richness of life that can be experienced when we allow ourselves to be seen.For more of Felicity's work, check out the following:Felicity's website: https://www.felicityreed.co.uk/Felicity's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/felicitypsychotherapy/For more from Mark McCartney:Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney00:00 How do I be true to myself?03:30 How we can lose ourselves07:00 The shame we feel when not ourselves10:00 When our stories and reality don’t align15:00 The response to withholding our truth21:00 Soothing ourselves24:30 When two humans meet in presence29:30 We simply need each other34:15 The gift of our sharing our humanity38:20 Moving from opinions to soulful connection43:25 Words that we feel47:00 Love and creating space for our being52:00 Summary and what is a good life for Felicity?Keywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life​