Being single, childless, navigating online dating, face yoga, threesomes, fear of another recession, losing parents and dealing with grief alone – we go everywhere and believe it or not, manage to laugh our way through a chunk of it!
So This episode comes off the back of one of your suggestions earlier in the year about living an alternative life, not getting married or having children – so I invited an old friend and colleague of mine, journalist Bibi Lynch on as she regularly writes about this in magazines and newspapers ….
We actually cover a huge amount of ground, she talks about how the recession in 2008 wrecked her life, the early loss of parents, how she’s not had the chance to have children, she's had abusive neighbours, a real 10 year slog …and then the pandemic hits and how you deal with all these things when you’re on your own – we talk a lot about being single and how society still doesn’t make space for the 25% of women who will never have children, we talk about online dating, face yoga, we talk about the concerns of what life is going to look on the other side of all this and we somehow find ourselves talking about sex and threesomes too …
Journalist Bibi Lynch has been called one of the funniest women on twitter, she’s often controversial and never fails to make you think. We first met when working together at BBC London Radio just over 10 years ago, she currently hosts 2 radio shows, one for Soho Radio and the other for BBC Sussex, she also hosts a podcast called Good Sex Bad Sex, she writes for the likes of The Telegraph, The Guardian and Stella, over the years has been columnist to various magazines such as Marie Claire and Elle, she’s co-wrote various TV shows, hosts monthly panels at The Groucho Club – she’s unstoppable!
The importance of being kind to each other isn’t just a notion, it’s a necessity – we don’t know what is going on in each other’s lives, we don’t know what wounds are being carried or battles are being played out
I think we’ve seen with the “black lives matter” movement, even with “me too” a couple of years ago, that it’s easy to turn and look the other way when we feel uncomfortable or that we don’t understand but I really hope that we are learning that when we do that, we increase the pain being suffered and if we can be brave enough to allow one another’s pain to come into the light, it might just get the chance to heal so that they can move on
One of the things that I really hope for our new normal, is that we begin to make way for each other more, where we become better at listening, where we become more open to hear and slower to judge.
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049 Still Smiling Through Grief, Sadness and Depression
048 Disconnected in a Connected World
047 Hamster Wheels, 2020 and Sunshine
046 What Makes A Good Life
045 Lean In and Lean On
044 Planning Pleasure and Purpose
043 Charging Toward Christmas
042 FINDING JOY PART 4
041 When To Trust Again
040 Finding Joy Part 3
039 FINDING JOY PART 2
038 Sorry Not Sorry Part 5 - Codependency
037 Sorry Not Sorry Part 4 - Transvision Vamping It
036 Sorry Not Sorry Part 3 - Saying No
035 Finding Joy
034 Sorry Not Sorry Part 2 - Yes You Can!
033 Sorry Not Sorry Part 1 - Taking Back The Power and Owning Your Space
032 Bricks in Backpacks - How To Love Myself
031 Taking Control of Your Destiny, Like Dick Did!
030 Inspired or Intimidated By Make Up
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