S2 #08 'Don't Let It Break You Honey'; An Interview with Jenny Evans

About this episode

Lucy Wylde interviews Jenny Evans about her memoir and experiences with grief and motherhood.

Jenny Evans is a Mother, investigative journalist and filmmaker. Following the investigation that became her memoir, ‘Don’t Let It Break You, Honey’ she retrained in law. Jenny has just secured her first legal position. I connected with Jenny on Instagram after hearing about her book and I am incredibly grateful for Jenny and this powerful, moving and life-affirming conversation. (Jenny has THE most wonderful laugh and is such brilliant and beautiful soul.) We cover some very tender topics so please go carefully if you may be triggered and/or pay attention to the following. TRIGGER WARNINGS: we speak about sexual abuse, the justice system, Jenny's stillborn daughter From 21 mins 50 secs to 22 mins 10 secs AND 23 mins to 25 mins 20 secs Jenny speaks about the death of her daughter, being stillborn From 25 mins 40 secs to 31 mins 20 secs Jenny talks about unexplained infertility, IVF and the death of her daughter whilst in utero From 32 mins 20 secs to 36 mins 30 secs I speak about being ostracised and sexual abuse In this episode we speak about: Jenny's background, her book and why she wrote it the courage it took to write about what I call 'nasty people' speaking our truth…

People in this episode

Host: Lucy Wylde

Guest: Jenny Evans

Topics covered

• grief
• motherhood
• sexual abuse
• infertility
• mental health
• justice system

Keywords

• Jenny Evans
• Don’t Let It Break You, Honey
• grief
• infertility
• sexual abuse
• motherhood
• IVF

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Don’t Let It Break You, Honey

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