The Folie À Deux Podcast was a project that initially began in collaboration with US mental health charity Strong 365 and evolved into a personal podcast project intended to question the collective understanding of so called ‘madness.’

In late 2023 I began practicing as a wellbeing practitioner. Initially my intention was for my private practice to be a space that is radically peer support focused, with a very broad breadth of creative offerings. However, I found myself becoming very unwell and took some time away from podcasting as well as working therapeutically.

I realised that being so open about my own mental health struggles in both my practice and the podcast was no longer feeling safe to me, and I decided to end the podcast project and refocus my wellbeing offering.

I rebranded my business from Folie À Deux to simply practicing under my name, Freyia Lilian, and focusing solely on working with my clients on body image and eating struggles. I decided to close down the podcast project, but hope to start a new podcast at some point in the future that feels less vulnerable.

Through working on the Folie À Deux Podcast, I gained a whole new skill set, learning cut/paste and other basic sound editing skills and honing my communication abilities.