“I feel like I always kind of longed for that family set up and I've got it. But although I feel loved and and I love my family, I've also kind of fallen into being a stepmum where I also sometimes feel that it's not my family.”

In this moving and revealing conversation Kate Ferdinand opens up on subjects that affect us all. This conversation explores: 

• How her childhood shaped her and in particular her relationship with her father

• The complexities and joys of being a stepmother and we can have multiple loves all at the same time

• How love for those that have died lives on in the family, becomes part of the family and needs to be integrated by those joining them

• The difficulties of social media and why comparison is the direct route to misery

• Her own experience of miscarriage and why she needed to be open about it 

• How she has had to learn that expressing difficult feelings can release her from old, hardwired patterns

• The notion that love is the strongest medicine

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