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Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living as a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a TV scriptwriter, a radio producer, a newspaper columnist and as an author.

She is the author of three best-selling novels The Girl Most Likely, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay and Joel and Cat Set The Story Straight (co-authored with Nick Earls). Since 2009 Rebecca has focused on writing non-fiction books for teenage girls to help them navigate those tricky high school years.

In episode 25 of season 1, we met author Emma Grey and we shared a heart-cracking conversation about a deep love and the devastating loss of Em's husband Jeff.

Emma mentions a conversation with Bec, when Bec tells Emma that the loss of her stillborn daughter Georgie was going to "turn the light UP in my life, not down" and that becomes an anchor for the way Em navigates her own grief.

Following my conversation with Em, she kindly introduced me to Bec. In our rich conversation, Bec and I cover:

• the loss of Bec's stillborn daughter Georgie, and her decision to not allow her first daughter Ava to feel like the loss of Georgie was more important than her
• the sometimes jarring concept of post traumatic growth, and how common it is to feel that trauma delivers positive outcomes
• how we tend to rank relationships, the power of female friendships, and how Bec's friends walked alongside her through her grief 
• The Friendship Project, cohosted by Bec and Sarah Wills and Lise Carlaw, and the themes around adult women's friendships, and a simple tip Bec shares to turn towards nurturing your friendships
• Bec's online program The Lighthouse Plan, inspired by her work with teen and tweens girls
• Bec's beautiful parenting tip for finding the glitter in amongst the rest of life.

Find Bec online here 

Read the blog about Post Traumatic Growth here 

Listen in to Episode 23 with Emma Grey here 

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