with Stella Duffy

<p>In this episode of <em>Frankly Speaking with Lynne Franks and Friends</em>, Lynne is joined by her friend Stella Duffy, discussing her multi-faceted career, from actor to director to author to practicing psychotherapist. They also discuss their close family connection and Stella’s journey to health and personal happiness.</p><p><br>The two share their experiences in their practise of Buddhism, how Stella created spaces for community storytelling and take a close look at post menopause - shifting the conversation from it being just purely a medical experience but also a societal, cultural, psychological and emotional experience.</p><p><br>Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. She worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director and facilitator. She is the co-founder and until January 2021 was co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign supporting community-led connection, with over 750,000 local participants across the UK. She received the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016. She is also a yoga teacher and runs yoga-for-writing workshops.</p><p><br>Stella is in the third year of a doctorate training in Existential Psychotherapy, her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopausal. Alongside her private psychotherapy practice, she works in an NHS cancer support service and a low-cost community mental health service. As a campaigner Stella was on the founding steering committee of the Women’s Equality Party, has worked for LGBTQ+ equalities for many decades, and is a member of Gateway Women’s</p><p><br>Childless Elderwomen, the #NoMoCrones.</p><p><br><strong>Links</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://stelladuffy.blog/">Stella Duffy’s website</a></li> <li>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stellduffy">@stellduffy on Instagram</a> </li> <li>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/stellduffy">@stellduffy on Twitter</a> </li> </ul><p>If you like what you hear, and want to find out more about our community of lik