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In this new original series from Somethin' Else, Claudia Winkleman and Professor Tanya Byron identify struggles faced by real-life parents and family members by inviting them in and hearing their story, in a one-time unscripted session with a real person. Claudia listens in to the conversation to discover how Tanya begins to unlock the story behind the issue and help find solutions. 

With topics ranging from parental estrangement, gender identity, domestic violence, trauma, inheriting mental health issues, family dynamics after cancer and raising a severely disabled daughter, How Did We Get Here? is a passionate, insightful and moving experience with clear outcomes to each episode.

This podcast doesn’t tell people how to raise their children, or reconnect with family members, rather it helps people understand why, as perfectly competent adults, they can’t put into practice what they know they should do.

Each episode passes on useful links and contacts which listeners can find in the programme notes.

This is a Somethin' Else production.

How Did We Get Here?

Looking for love or navigating the modern dating world? We've got just the thing! How to Date is your ultimate guide to the highs, lows, and everything in between of modern romance. Hosted by broadcaster and author Elizabeth Day and relationship expert Mel Schilling, this podcast masterclass dives deep into the complexities of finding connection in today’s world.

Whether you're decoding dating apps, breaking old patterns, or building confidence, Elizabeth and Mel are here to help—with humour, honesty, and expert advice. Featuring candid conversations with fascinating guests, you'll learn how to spot red flags, avoid communication pitfalls, cope with rejection, and even find love that's truly worthy of you. Plus, practical tips and exercises make this a must-listen for anyone looking to date with confidence and self-worth.

After all, the most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself.

A Daylight and Sony Music Entertainment Production.

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Introducing: How to Date

Claudia Winkleman is a broadcaster who feels like your best friend - whether she's co-hosting Strictly Come Dancing, fronting her Saturday morning BBC Radio 2 show or sending shivers down your spine as the presenter of The Traitors. And now, for our season finale, she joins How to Fail to talk about her hatred of perfect, her distaste for exercise, her introversion and her failure to live in the present. Plus: struggles with sleep, the invaluable lessons her parents' taught her and why Rembrandt (as seen with minus 15 eyesight) might be her forever style icon.

How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.

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Claudia Winkleman on the joy of imperfection - How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

Bea is an achiever in all areas of her life apart from one. She feels that until she is slimmer, she hasn’t achieved everything she set out to do. 

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice. 

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered. 

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 12 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_12.txt 

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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If I'm Not Thin I'm Not Successful

Isla has suffered more deaths in her family than most people deal with in a lifetime. 

She finds it impossible to process what has happened and needs a way out of the pain. 

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice. 

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered. 

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 11 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_11.txt 

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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Grieving Multiple Losses

George was a fireman for the RAF in Iraq and Afghanistan. After his tour of 2007, he came back a different person and has found it hard to reintegrate into society. 

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice. 

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered. 

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 10 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_10.txt

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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Keep Myself to Myself

Heather’s mum left the family home when she was 17 with no warning. Heather still struggles with that day many years later, but is she looking at it the wrong way? 

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice. 

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered.

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 9 here: 

somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_9.txt

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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My Mother Walked Out

Lottie can’t get over the split with her ex-husband and finds it hard to trust her new boyfriend. As a child, she lost both her parents and her brother was murdered, the repercussions of which are still felt today.

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice.

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered.

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 8 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_8.txt

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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Why Does Everyone Leave?

8 years ago Eva felt faint when driving on a motorway and hasn’t been able to drive on fast roads since. Her friend’s death in a road traffic accident when she was a teenager may be the key.

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice.

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered.

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 7 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_7.txt 

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 
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Driving Phobia

Charlie, who had to care for his siblings and had a difficult coming out story, finds it hard to take care of himself.

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice.

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered.

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 6 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_6.txt 

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

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Constant State of Anxiety

Annie’s relationship with her siblings has worsened since their mother died, and realises the key to resolving the conflict might lie with their estranged father.

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode please see below for information about further support and advice.

To find help via talking therapies you can either go to your GP or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) bacp.co.uk or bps.org.uk - they should be HCPC registered.

Other helpful organisations:

 NHS - www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 SAMARITANS - www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan or call 116 123

 MIND - www.mind.co.uk

 NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe

 WELLDOING - www.welldoing.org

 NICE - www.nice.org.uk/guidance

 Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Find the transcript for episode 5 here: somethin-else.github.io/transcripts/hdwgh/episode3_5.txt 

How Did We Get Here? is a Somethin' Else Production. 

If you're interested in taking part in future episodes of "How Did We Get Here?", please email describing your issue to how@somethinelse.com. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Claudia Winkleman on the joy of imperfection - How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

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