Jul 5, 2026 · 46 min · 12 segments
🌸 Cressida and Isabella are joined by entrepreneur, bestselling author and wellness advocate Poppy Jamie. 🌸 Poppy shares the inspiration behind her new book, opens up about growing up with a mother…
Poppy JamieGuest
Isabella BransonHost
Cressida BonasHost
It's about reconnecting with intuition and the parts of ourselves we so often ignore, and so much of that comes back to your mum, who you describe as a witch.
When did you first start thinking that, and what was it about her that made her feel different to other people?
I feel that we only really realize who our parents are as we grow older because as a child, you obviously just assume that everybody is like that.
And I remember, probably not the first time I realized she was a witch, but I guess my inklings were very much confirmed when I met, it was only a few years ago, and I met one of her, uh, former work colleagues.
And my mother is a psychotherapist, but before that she was a, a physiotherapist.
That was her first career, and she worked in the hospital with young children, and one of her old physiotherapy colleagues from the hospital, uh, saw me and said, "You know, your mother healed children that believed they could never walk again, and she was the only one that helped these children to walk." And there were s- certain children that they all had assumed would never be able to, and yet after a few sessions with, with my mother, they were walking, and nobody could understand how she had done this miraculous work.
And my mother is so self-deprecating, so she's like, "Oh, God, don't be so ridiculous," you know? "They just developed really quickly," you know? But she was so early on in the early '90s to realize how powerful the mind and the belief system was in influencing health outcomes.
And so she, and as her colleague said, sh- she said, "Your mother realized that she helped these children believe they could walk, and so they were able to." And, you know, prior to really very recently, we separated the mind and body so much, especially in medicine.
And she just had always had this instinct, I guess, since she was very little, to realize that they were one functioning together, and you needed both in order to have the results that everybody wanted to see.
And so that was such an amazing story for me because I obviously, we're growing up.
She, we were her guinea pigs, and so if we'd had a tough day at school, we would come, come home and she'd be like, "Right.
Let's put you under hypnosis." And, uh, you know, when you're 12, it's probably quite unusual to, for your mother to, to be putting you under hypnosis into pink bubbles, and so, so it meant that we were less sensitive when we arrived at school the next day.
All the things that were upsetting us, you know, we felt protected from them the next day.
But it was just really extraordinary when I look back on it because, you know, nowadays a lot of people are obviously discovering the power of hypnotherapy, mind work.
My father struggled from really chronic bad mental health for most of his life, and yet, you know, my mother was just unbelievable in his healing journey.
And so it's only when, I guess, in the last decade I've kind of very much delved into this work to realize that my mother was just decades and decades, lifetimes ahead of most of the world in understanding what it meant to be human and what we needed to be able to thrive.
It's about reconnecting with intuition and the parts of ourselves we so often ignore, and so much of that comes back to your mum, who you describe as a witch.
When did you first start thinking that, and what was it about her that made her feel different to other people?
I feel that we only really realize who our parents are as we grow older because as a child, you obviously just assume that everybody is like that.
And I remember, probably not the first time I realized she was a witch, but I guess my inklings were very much confirmed when I met, it was only a few years ago, and I met one of her, uh, former work colleagues.
And my mother is a psychotherapist, but before that she was a, a physiotherapist.
That was her first career, and she worked in the hospital with young children, and one of her old physiotherapy colleagues from the hospital, uh, saw me and said, "You know, your mother healed children that believed they could never walk again, and she was the only one that helped these children to walk." And there were s- certain children that they all had assumed would never be able to, and yet after a few sessions with, with my mother, they were walking, and nobody could understand how she had done this miraculous work.
And my mother is so self-deprecating, so she's like, "Oh, God, don't be so ridiculous," you know? "They just developed really quickly," you know? But she was so early on in the early '90s to realize how powerful the mind and the belief system was in influencing health outcomes.
And so she, and as her colleague said, sh- she said, "Your mother realized that she helped these children believe they could walk, and so they were able to." And, you know, prior to really very recently, we separated the mind and body so much, especially in medicine.
And she just had always had this instinct, I guess, since she was very little, to realize that they were one functioning together, and you needed both in order to have the results that everybody wanted to see.
And so that was such an amazing story for me because I obviously, we're growing up.
She, we were her guinea pigs, and so if we'd had a tough day at school, we would come, come home and she'd be like, "Right.
Let's put you under hypnosis." And, uh, you know, when you're 12, it's probably quite unusual to, for your mother to, to be putting you under hypnosis into pink bubbles, and so, so it meant that we were less sensitive when we arrived at school the next day.
All the things that were upsetting us, you know, we felt protected from them the next day.
But it was just really extraordinary when I look back on it because, you know, nowadays a lot of people are obviously discovering the power of hypnotherapy, mind work.
My father struggled from really chronic bad mental health for most of his life, and yet, you know, my mother was just unbelievable in his healing journey.
And so it's only when, I guess, in the last decade I've kind of very much delved into this work to realize that my mother was just decades and decades, lifetimes ahead of most of the world in understanding what it meant to be human and what we needed to be able to thrive.
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