Joe Wicks opens up about his childhood with a heroin-addicted father, and mother with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Over the first four months of the Covid pandemic in 2020, Joe Wicks became a national hero as he livestreamed PE lessons every morning to hundreds of thousands of Brits.
Initially, he says, he wanted to explore the link between exercise and mental health, as keeping fit has always been his chosen way of staying mentally healthy, but during the process of making the programme, he realised the topic was more personal to him than he thought.
"As I got older, I realised it wasn't normal. We were arguing all the time, and I'd think, 'why isn't my dad here? Why can't he be a stable guy in my life?'"One striking moment in the documentary is when Joe explains that it was only in adulthood he realised his childhood wasn't normal. "It was my psychotherapist who said to me one day, has it occurred to you that there's been a severe amount of neglect from your father?" she says.
"She was frustrated - he'd been to rehab three times and every time she was hopeful that he'd come back a changed man, but each time he went back to the drink and went back to square one. Eventually they divorced because of it."Having therapy, she says, helped her find healthy ways of dealing with conflict. "I'm really glad I recognised it, and other people told me that's not how couples do things," Sally says.
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