The Letterbox Podcast

What do you say to someone you may never meet, but have loved for years? In the final chapter of Ang’s three-part story, she writes a letter to her future child. After heartbreak, betrayal, and letting go of the life she thought she was building, Ang chooses to write not from grief, but from hope. She reflects on the kind of love she wants to give, the home she hopes to create, and the person she...

Dear Ang | Finding Yourself Again After Heartbreak & Starting Over A powerful letter about healing after heartbreak, rediscovering yourself, and rebuilding your life after losing the future you thought you would have. In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, Ang shares the second letter in her three-part story. After believing her future was already written — a marriage, a home, children, and the...

What happens when the person you thought was your forever becomes the person you have to let go of? In this emotional episode of The Letterbox Podcast, Ang shares the letter she wrote after discovering that the relationship she believed she was living wasn’t the reality she was facing. At 41 years old, Ang thought she had found the person she would marry. They spoke about marriage, children, growi...

In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, I read one of the deeply personal letters from Letters to My Mum—an ongoing series written by Juliet following the death of her mum. Each letter captures a different moment in grief. The ordinary moments that suddenly become extraordinary after losing a parent. The conversations that can no longer happen. The memories that arrive unexpectedly. The question...

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of domestic abuse, domestic violence, coercive control, emotional abuse, physical abuse, trauma, gaslighting, and child exposure to domestic violence. In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, j share a powerful anonymous letter from a domestic abuse survivor who bravely tells the story of surviving coercive control, emotional abuse, physical viol...

In this episode of The Letterbox Podcast, we read a powerful, emotional letter written by Sarah to her spirit baby following pregnancy loss and miscarriage. This letter explores the lived experience of miscarriage, baby loss, pregnancy loss, and grief after losing a baby, alongside the love, healing, and the emotional complexity of carrying and losing a pregnancy. Sarah shares her personal reflect...

What if your favourite TV show helped raise you? This week on The Letterbox Podcast, we open a heartfelt letter to FRIENDS (the iconic 90s TV sitcom)—the show that became more than just entertainment. From childhood memories of reruns and box sets to lessons about friendship, love, dating, family, career changes, infertility, loyalty, and finding your place in the world, this episode explores why...

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, a...

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-t...

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 wha...

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 navi...

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 he...

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 appointment...

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...

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...

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...

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 refle...

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 pho...

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 whi...

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 lon...

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...