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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Louise Thompson - ‘I asked myself: Am I alive?’
Description: TW: this episode contains graphic descriptions of birth trauma and PTSD.
You might know Louise Thompson as the former Made in Chelsea star. Or the fitness influencer who launched two businesses and graced the cover of Women’s Health magazine twice. But when she gave birth to her son Leo, all that changed. She experienced a series of life-threatening haemorrhages before ending up in Intensive Care, absolutely convinced she was going to die. Since then, she has suffered PTSD, panic attacks and countless further complications, resulting in being fitted with a stoma in January this year.
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