Panic and euphoria.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
relationships
What does love feel like?
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Knowledge seeping into adventure, with a thin layer of giddiness, hysterical laughter and loss of control.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
Love is understanding, authenticity and being able to be exactly who you are with no editing – and it’s a gift.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2024 source ↗
Stimulating in every way.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗
Your heart walking around outside your body.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗
A hot sauna and then an icy dip.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
Uncontrollable, wonderful.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2025 source ↗
Like a warm velvet glove.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗
Holding a large and fragile glass object in a very dangerous environment.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
It is obsessive, it is glorious, it is everything that we’re put on this Earth to feel, all at once.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2025 source ↗
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗
So many different types. When I first met my husband, electric and vital. When I first held my boys in my arms, an overwhelming flood of defiant protection and magic.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
A glow of wellbeing.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Light of the Almighty in my heart.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗
Being present where you are.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
A mix – safety to be yourself, acceptance, a feeling of peace and reliance, but also challenge, whether that’s intellectual or emotional.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2026 source ↗
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