MAFs Lucinda Light on love: plus de-stress your teen for exams
Podcast update: Season 15 kicks off with Married At First Sight's midlife hero Lucinda & we ask experts how to help our teens through exam anxiety and motivate them to revise.
It’s season 15 of our podcast and we kicked off with an in depth interview with Australian Lucinda Light, the reality TV star with more than 1 million followers across social media whose heart wrenching life story captured the world’s attention when she appeared on the show in 2024.
This episode is packed with a new kind of wisdom: Listen here from holistic healer and marriage celebrant Lucinda, 45, who has been through so much. She’s travelled the world since the age of 19, once living with an Amazonian tribe, she’s loved and lost, endured chronic back pain, financial hardship and the defeat of having to move back in with her mum in her early 40s. She talks about reinventing yourself, saying goodbye to the possibility of motherhood, losing the great love of your life, and how spontaneous decisions often lead to the best learnings. Her soft and gentle attitude combined with her work as a healer and yoga teacher offers a new more spiritual approach to midlife with some great logic and sensible tips thrown in.
And in our 20 minute Wednesday episode of the podcast we asked the experts how to help your teenagers with exam anxiety now that the UK’s exam season has started. Good luck to everyone supporting their young people through GCSEs, A Levels, Uni/college end of term exams and remember exams are not really the metric of success in life, there is much research to show this so if you can back-off and adopt a more ‘pot plant’ mode of parenting during this tense time it will be extremely helpful for your teens as we say in the episode.
Here are all the resources mentioned by Lorraine on the show for you to check out and share to those who need it:
Anita Cleare: School Stress are you pushing too hard?
The Disengaged teen: Helping kids learn better, feel better and live better
BBC Bitesize exam resources/how to cope with stress
Tips for parents of teens on exams: Lorraine Candy
MIND: understanding your teen's exam stress
'Mum, What's Wrong With You? 101 things only the mothers of teenage girls know
