In the spring of 2020, Kerry Ann Lynch was sitting with her seven-year-old daughter Autumn, who could not sleep. The world outside had gone quiet in a way that no parent could explain and no child could process. So she stopped trying to explain it. She started telling a story instead. She described a bed that lifted from the floor, drifted through the window, and carried Autumn somewhere warm and far from everything. The story worked. Autumn’s eyes closed.
There would be thirty-eight more.
Kerry Ann Lynch is a 43-year-old British mindfulness practitioner, wellbeing coach, and trainee counsellor based in Kent, England. Born in February 1983, she is married to Blake Harrison, the actor best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy The Inbetweeners. She runs a private coaching practice from an office in Bexleyheath, created the children’s sleep podcast Your Floating Bed, and delivers mindfulness sessions in schools, at festivals, and for five charities across the UK.
Most people who find her searched Blake Harrison’s name first. That is just the particular shape of her life, and it is worth understanding what that life actually looks like.
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From Theatre PR to Mindfulness Practitioner
Before the podcast, before the school workshops, before any of it, Kerry Lynch worked as a theatre publicist. She understood how profiles get built, how press gets managed, and how entertainment visibility is maintained from inside the machinery that produces it. She left that career and retrained entirely.
Her own website identifies her current titles as: Accredited Creative Mindfulness Practitioner, Wellbeing Coach, and Trainee Counsellor. The sessions she offers are secular and grounded in scientific research, a distinction she is specific about.
From her Bexleyheath office, she works with children, teenagers, and adults in one-to-one coaching, available in person and online. She also takes that work into schools across South East England through programmes that include:
- Anti-Bullying Week workshops
- Children’s Mental Health Week sessions
- Exam stress support sessions
- Lunchtime and after-school mindfulness clubs
- SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) sessions
The SEND sessions sit alongside everything else, not as an afterthought. Combined with a testimonial on her own website from a parent of a child with ASD and ADHD, they reflect who the coaching practice is genuinely built around.
Your Floating Bed: The Children’s Sleep Podcast Born in Lockdown
Kerry Lynch explained in a 2021 interview with Pod Bible magazine, a UK podcast publication, exactly where the podcast came from:
“During the first lockdown, my 7-year-old daughter, Autumn, struggled to sleep. Like a lot of us, she found lockdown disruptive and unsettling. So I began to create sleep journeys for her to help her unwind and calm her fizzy mind. These are simple stories using guided meditation and positive affirmations, where we imagine her bed floating away to a destination of her choice.”
When she heard how many children worldwide were going through the same thing, she took the sleep journeys public.
Your Floating Bed is a children’s mindfulness and sleep podcast with 39 episodes, available free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, and YouTube. Each episode is built around a destination chosen by the listeners. Episodes have included:
- A Pokรฉmon adventure inspired by the Satoshi Tajiri franchise
- A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles session for younger listeners
- An Alice in Wonderland episode built around exam anxiety and returning to school
- A Christmas special created with members of the mindfulness club at Benedict House School
- An Anti-Bullying Week episode in partnership with the charity Kidscape
The podcast is produced by Mark Edmondson at markedaudio.com and distributed under GingerGoat Productions. The last episode was published in September 2024.
Who listens to it tells its own story. Alongside parents writing in about restless children, one review on Kerry’s website came from an adult with no children at all:
“I suffer from quite bad anxiety. These sleep journeys have saved me and helped me tune off and relax so I can have a full night’s sleep. Truly life changing.”
A children’s podcast, made free, funded by a PayPal tip jar.
Fizzy Minds Club: Schools, Festivals, and Five Charities
Away from the podcast and her private practice, Kerry Lynch runs Fizzy Minds Club, delivering bespoke mindfulness and wellbeing sessions for children and teenagers in schools and at public events.
Each session brings together guided breathing and mindfulness techniques, creative activities, crafts, Lego, sensory play, emotional regulation tools, and a live Your Floating Bed guided journey tailored to that particular group.
She has delivered Fizzy Minds sessions at:
- Happy Place Festival, Fearne Cotton’s annual family wellbeing event
- Latitude Festival
- Brockwell Bounce
- Community events across South East England
- New Eltham Library, London (April 2024)
Her charity work, carried out through workshops, online sessions, and personalised podcast journeys, spans five organisations: Kidscape, We Are Beyond, Calm Connections, Honeypot, and Spark Teens.
How Kerry Ann Lynch Met Blake Harrison
Blake Harrison told the story publicly on The Chris Moyles Show. A pub crawl in 2010, with Inbetweeners castmates Joe Thomas and Emily Atack, and Atack’s sister Martha. He met Kerry that night. On the relationships that came before her, he said: “I’ve been dumped, of course I have. Look at me. I used to be so desperate to have a long-term relationship, I’d scare the girl off.”
Blake Harrison was born on 22 July 1985 in Peckham, London, and is best known for playing Neil Sutherland across three series of The Inbetweeners and both feature films. His television work since includes World on Fire (BBC), I Hate Suzie (Sky), Kate and Koji (ITV), and Still Up (Apple TV+, 2024). He co-hosts The MMA Fan Podcast.
He and Kerry marked their ninth anniversary in October 2019. His Instagram post read: “Looking at these really highlights your decline and how I’ve aged like a fine wine. You’re the luckiest woman I know.”
The Mauritius Wedding and Family Life
Kerry Ann Lynch and Blake Harrison married in May 2016 at a resort in Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. All three of his Inbetweeners co-stars, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, and James Buckley, attended. The Mirror had reported the previous September that the cast would be “suited and booted abroad, this time for a real wedding.”
They live in Kent. Their daughter is named Autumn, the same daughter Kerry named in the Pod Bible interview when she described creating the first sleep journey. Their son’s name has never been made public. Both parents keep their children largely off social media.
In May 2021, Kerry posted on Instagram: “Look at these two idiots. 11 years together.”
Kerry Lynch spent years inside the entertainment industry understanding how attention gets built. Then she married into it. Then she set up a coaching practice in Bexleyheath, gave a podcast away for free, and spent the years that followed taking mindfulness sessions to SEND children and teenagers in schools across South East England.
The parents who found Your Floating Bed almost certainly got there by searching someone else’s name first. She built something real. Its reach runs through a door she chose not to open herself, and that is, when you sit with it, the most honest thing you can say about Kerry Ann Lynch.
