The Letterbox Podcast

In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, we share a powerful letter to a future self exploring themes of self-worth, healing, resilience, and personal growth.

From Perth, Leone reflects on her journey through grief, loss, uncertainty, and transformation — and the strength it takes to rebuild and rise through life’s hardest seasons. Her words speak to anyone on a path of healing, self-discovery, and learning to trust the...

In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, Mary writes a powerful open letter to politicians past and present who she believes have ignored the plight of unpaid carers in the UK.

Mary shares her lived experience as the full-time carer for her son Daniel, who suffered severe brain damage in infancy following complications from a childhood cancer diagnosis. For over 44 years, she has provided round-the-clock care — totalling arou...

In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, an anonymous writer shares a deeply personal letter about her husband’s brain injury and the stranger who came to live with them after his accident.

She writes about the shock of what happened, the hospital journey, and the weeks that followed, when everything familiar was suddenly changed. She describes the moment life split into before and after, and what it means to begin again in a...

In this deeply moving episode of The Letterbox Podcast, listener Jazz shares a heartfelt letter to her late brother, Gav, released on the anniversary of his passing. She reflects on the unimaginable loss of a brother who suffered a life-changing stroke at just 35 years old, the grief that followed, and the enduring love that remains.

If you’ve experienced the death of a brother or sister, are navigating grief, or are looking f...

Some journeys into parenthood begin with dreams. Others begin with hospital corridors, unanswered questions, and a love so fierce it aches.

In this deeply moving episode of The Letterbox Podcast, we read “Dear Mama”—a heartfelt letter written by a mother for those raising babies and children who are unwell, disabled, or have additional needs. It’s the message she wishes someone had whispered to her in those e...

What is fostering really like? What does it mean to open your home to a child in foster care?

In this heartfelt episode of The Letterbox Podcast, Sophie shares a powerful letter about her family’s fostering journey. Alongside her husband and their two young sons, she welcomed a foster child into their home and discovered that fostering is about so much more than training, paperwork and appointments—it’s about trust...

On 8 June 1946, millions of British schoolchildren received a message from King George VI as part of Britain’s Victory Celebrations following the Second World War.

One of those children was a ten-year-old girl.

Today, eighty years later to the day, she is ninety years old—and she still has the letter.

In this special episode of The Letterbox Podcast, we share a remarkable piece of post-war British history preserved alongsi...

Hyperemesis Gravidarum is so much more than “morning sickness.”

In this deeply personal letter, a mother opens up about the reality of surviving pregnancy while feeling completely consumed by it — the isolation, the fear, the guilt, the grief, and the quiet trauma so many women carry in silence.

This is a conversation for the women who loved their baby deeply, but hated what pregnancy was doing to their body.

For th...

When was the last time you truly noticed the everyday things quietly holding your life together?

In this deeply reflective episode sent in by a listener of The Letterbox Podcast, I read “To the Things I Take for Granted” — a gentle reminder to slow down and appreciate the ordinary magic woven into modern life.

From running water, warm showers, and muddy running trainers… to yoga mats, handmade art, and the in...

A heartfelt, reflective letter from your 30s to your teenage self, exploring nostalgia, identity, growing up, and the strange reality of still feeling like “younger you” on the inside.

‘Dear Teenage Me’ is an honest chat from our listener to her younger self filled with friendships, MSN chats, Bebo Top Friends drama, awkward crushes, nights out, and the emotional intensity of adolescence.

It reflects on the s...

Welcome back to The Letterbox Podcast — the podcast where real letters from real people are read out loud. In this episode, we read Dear Doomscroll, an honest letter about phone addiction, social media habits, doomscrolling, screen time, and the strange comfort of endlessly scrolling even when we know it’s stealing our time.

This letter explores the feeling of being constantly attached to your phone, losing hours to TikT...

Postpartum life is often described as beautiful — but it can also feel lonely, overwhelming, emotional, and completely life-changing.

In this episode of Letterbox, we read an anonymous postpartum letter exploring the reality of new motherhood after birth: postpartum recovery, sleepless nights, breastfeeding, hormonal changes, identity loss, and the emotional weight of caring for a newborn baby while still showing up for a todd...

Thank you so much to our wonderful listener, Amelie for submitting this letter.

In this episode of Lettebox Podcast, a parent writes an unsent letter to a homeless man they pass on their morning runs with their child.

What begins as a quiet routine crossing a bridge becomes something far more emotionally complex — a reflection on visibility, kindness, and the small interactions that linger far longer than we expect. Each morni...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Letterbox— a podcast built on real, raw, and deeply personal letters.

In this emotional and heartwarming debut, we open a powerful letter from a parent to their children — “my little loves.” It’s filled with honest reflections on parenthood, unconditional love, hopes for the future, and the quiet fears we don’t always say out loud. This episode blends humou...