You're Doing Great Sweetie!

For the next two eps, we're sharing personal stories of experiences that have shaped our lives. This week, Josie talks about going through a miscarriage and the trauma that then followed her into her next pregnancy, and gives a few tips of how to handle your friend or loved one's grief if they are going through pregnancy loss.It's a tough topic, so here are a couple of resources in case you are struggling and need support.SANDS Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Newborn Death support: https://www.sands.org.au/Pink Elephants Support Network: https://www.pinkelephants.org.au/Lifeline 13 11 14 or https://www.lifeline.org.au/Interesting article about miscarriage / PTSD: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51093999Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_

If there's one task that makes life feel tedious (besides cleaning the toot), it's making dinner. From finding ways to jazz up tired recipes, to cooking on a budget, it's just an exhausting, frustrating process that we're frankly over, big time. But unless you're J.Lo and can afford a private chef (please, god) it's a huge part of life - and annoyingly, still kind of falls to the women a lot of the time. This ep is basically just us whinging about cooking, cleaning up after cooking, kids that hate our cooking and us begging you for new recipes.Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_

In the second bit of our friendship two-parter, Mel and Josie talk about how losing a friend can be really painful, and chat about why it's important to remember it's not (always) your fault.Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_

Our first guest! For this episode we invited all-round angel and co-founder of health & fitness app Keep It Cleaner, Laura Henshaw, on for a chat. From that flat feeling extended lockdowns have brought many Australians to "COVID disappointments" like postponing your wedding five times, Laura breaks down what's helped her get through some tough times over the past couple of years - and we chat about how it's okay to be upset about the trivial stuff, even if you're thankful about the bigger stuff. Plus she used to be a DJ so we of course discussed the best/worst tracks of the 00s.Check out Keep It Cleaner here.Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_

When you're a kid, making new friends is easy. It's usually whoever sits next to you in class, maybe also whoever isn't being the school bully. But once you hit adulthood, it's SERIOUSLY tough. This ep, we discuss our own attempts at making adult friends (we've had to do it a LOT), can you Instagram DM your way to friendship, and how to even meet new people in the first place.Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_

Nothing is more contagious than comparison syndrome (or as Mel calls it in this ep, comparison-itis) - you basically catch it every time you go on Instagram. Mel and Josie chat about the type of content that sees them falling deep into the comparison trap and share some methods they use to snap out of it.Join our community, sweetie!Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetieJoin our Facebook group: search "You're Doing Great Sweetie"Email us: doinggreatsweetie1@gmail.comFollow Josie on Instagram: @josierozeFollow Mel on Instagram: @melissamason_