Faustine Bollaert presents a new number of "La Boîte à Secrets", Friday evening on France 3. Guest of "It feels good" the same day, the TV host also returned to her successful testimonial show, "It begins today".
She explains how she manages the emotional load of her guests.
INTERVIEW
Whether they are beautiful stories or life trials, it is always emotional moments that Faustine Bollaert's guests recount every day on her show
It begins today
.
Guest of
It's Good
Friday, the host explains how she manages to find the balance between the empathy necessary to listen to her guests, and a detachment that prevents her from having these stories create anxiety and worries.
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For Faustine Bollaert, the trick is to condition her mind.
"When I arrive on my show, I am in total empathy with my guests, I am a sponge," she admits.
"But before and after, I put on my armor. When I go back to my dressing room, you have to know that an hour later I go on with another program, and other subjects."
"I could do 14 mammograms"
So the presenter must use this break to make herself available again to listen to new stories.
"I have an exercise where I leave these stories", explains Faustine Bollaert.
"This is the time for humor, the time to step aside, maybe the time for cynicism sometimes too. I am extremely sincere with my guests. But I need to be structured and have a discipline alongside. "
But the ordeals told by her guests sometimes pursue her after the filming of the show.
By projecting herself into the stories she makes them tell, the facilitator sometimes creates anxieties.
"I could do 14 mammograms, I could change my alarm codes 17 times at home", she illustrates with humor.
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Faustine Bollaert therefore decided to consult a psychologist.
"At some point, I have to tell someone how these subjects have upset me. And I think that this is not necessarily the role of my husband, to whom I am going to cause anxiety that does not 'do not exist at his place, "she jokes.
"My guests give me life lessons"
The host explains taking his distance and not being able to provide "after-sales service" for his programs.
This does not prevent him from sometimes keeping the link with certain guests.
"When someone says they are waiting for the results of a health exam, it happened to me to look for people on Instagram to ask for news," says Faustine Bollaert.
Despite the emotion aroused by certain testimonies, Faustine Bollaert does not see herself stopping
It starts today
.
Praising the courage of her guests who come to reveal personal stories on television, she explains that this show has changed her.
"My guests give me life lessons every day, on my ability to question myself, to move forward in areas that I did not know at all," she says.
"Today, I find life much more nuanced. These testimonies lift me up."