Coping Skills

Owning It: The Science of Self Compassion for Reducing Anxiety with TED Talker Dr Kristen Neff

For this episode I am joined by one of my heroes: Dr Kristin Neff. She is so ridiculously qualified there just isn’t enough room in the podcast notes to fill you in on why she’s the business but we do discuss her background at the beginning of this episode. Her main topic is self-compassion and […]

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Owning It: Coping with anxiety surrounding a break-up

Something I have yet to really dive into is the anxiety surrounding a break up, which is something so many of us, if not all of us, will probably experience at some point in our lives. Maybe it’s a split from your first love, or maybe, as is the case for my guest, journalist and author Liadan Hynes,

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Owning It: What you probably didn’t know about exercise for anxiety with Dr Kelly McGonigal

For this episode I am so excited to be joined by a guest that i have so long wanted to feature on this series. Her name is Dr Kelly McGonigal. Her Ted Talk has inspired so much of what I do and has informed so much of my mentality and approach towards managing anxiety. In this

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Owning It: Deliciously Ella shares her anxiety story

I was so excited to get some time with Ella Mills of Deliciously Ella fame to chat about anxiety. We spoke over ZOOM as with most of season, it was recorded during lockdown when social distancing was key so unfortunately it’ll never be as good quality as it would have been in studio. Ella is

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Owning It: Emotional Distress Vs Mental Illness with Dr Harry Barry

For this expert led episode my guest is Dr Harry Barry. He has written ten books to help us manage our mental health and his latest is called Emotional Healing and it’s widely available now. We have a really enlightening conversation about the difference between mental illness and emotional distress, the latter of which is what most of

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Owning It: Brian Pennie’s incredible story of overcoming anxiety

To kick off this new series, of which there will be 15 episodes that mix world class experts on anxiety in with everyday people’s anxiety stories, I am joined by the incredible Brian Pennie. I don’t need to give him much of an intro because his story of overcoming adversity speaks for itself. Brian is

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Owning It: How to manage anxiety as we come out of lockdown

This is the last episode of season 3 before season 4 launches in just a few short weeks. The topic? Just as we had to adapt into lockdown and deal with all of the anxiety that brought fore, so too will it take a little bit of time to adapt back to whatever our new

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Owning It: The power of decision making for anxiety

For this episode of Owning It I introduce a skill that has massively helped my day to day anxiety, especially as I approach anxiety-inducing life events where my amygdala wants to say ‘no!’ and run for the hills but my prefrontal cortex knows that maybe, this is something I should do, maybe it would be good

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Owning It: The Books That Helped My Anxiety + Ujjayi Breathing Exercise

In another of my shorter solo episodes that make up season 3, I wanted to talk through some of the books that had the biggest impact on me when it came to my own management and understanding of anxiety, as well as changing my perspective on it and allowing me to get to a place

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Owning It: 3 Practical Ways To Manage Working From Home Anxiety During Lockdown

In this solo episode, the 6th of this season which is more geared towards helping us cope better during Covid-19, I take a look at some recent research that has emerged about how we are getting on working from home. Unfortunately, there is a huge increase in anxiety for several reasons, and that’s understandable and

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Owning It: What is Comfortable Neutrality and why is it important for anxiety?

Another solo episode as part of season 3. This time I am introducing you to the concept of Comfortable Neutrality which is essential for increasing confidence and an incredibly helpful tool for down-regulating our anxiety response. It is an idea put forward in my second book The Confidence Kit (which is out now in the

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Owning It: What is a ‘stretch zone experience’ and why is it important?

Hi guys, in this second episode of season 3 I am drilling down into some of the content explored in my second book, The Confidence Kit. I am looking at the comfort zone model and the importance of what’s called a stretch zone experience when it comes to owning our anxiety and building our confidence.

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