Normalising Anxiety

OWNING IT: How to improve your self-talk for anxiety with Little Penny Thoughts

This week I am joined by Anette Kelly of Little Penny Thoughts (a huge online platform for positive self-talk and wellness from within workshops around Ireland and the UK) to talk about her experience of anxiety, how it was generated in the first place by poor self talk and how she turned things around to

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OWNING IT: People pleasing and how to say no with author Sarah Knight

People pleasing is a big driver of anxiety. For this episode of Owning It I am thrilled to be joined by New York Times Bestselling author Sarah Knight. She wrote the Lifechanging Magic of Not Giving A Fuck and has gone on to write a whole series of No F***s Given Guides, the latest of

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Owning It: How sleep affects anxiety and how anxiety affects sleep

In this episode of Owning It I am diving into the subject of sleep with sleep expert Tom Coleman. We talk about the importance of sleep for regulating emotions, how a sleep deficit affects anxiety and how anxiety affects our sleep. Crucially, Tom offers his best advice on how to improve our sleep, our ability

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Owning It: What is ‘Havening’ and how can it help your anxiety?

Is your neurochemical landscape vulnerable? In this expert episode I’m joined by Stephen Travers, of stravershypnosis.com who helps me to gain a further understanding of what’s happening in our brain when we experience anxiety. At points we get very technical but I strongly believe that knowledge is power in the face of anxiety. Specifically, Stephen

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Owning It: Anxiety at work with Dermot & Dave

For this episode of Owning It The Anxiety Podcast I am joined by Irish radio’s most loved duo, Dermot Whelan and Dave Moore (more commonly referred to as Dermot & Dave, of Today FM fame). Both of the lads share their respective experience of anxiety along with how they look after their mental health today.

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Owning It: Training your emotional resilience with rugby star Ian Madigan

This week I talk to rugby star Ian Madigan about how he manages his anxiety, what he’s learned in training as a professional athlete that he can take off the pitch and apply to his personal life, how we can become more resilient, the importance of positive self affirmations and lots more. You’ll enjoy it

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Owning It: Accepting Your Anxiety (with actor Tanya Reynolds)

For this episode of Owning it I sit down with Sex Education actor Tanya Reynolds. She’s British, she’s one of the soundest people I’ve interviewed and she was so honest and forthcoming with her anxiety story. It’s something she’s still very much dealing with, particularly her social anxiety. We talk about learning to accept our

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Owning It: Why Self-Compassion Is an Essential Anxiety Tool

I’m back with another mini episode, this time it’s just me and I’m talking about the science behind self-compassion and why it’s such an incredibly important tool for owning your anxiety. I talk what it is, why it works and how to implement more of it into your life, especially during periods of anxiety. Support

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Owning It: Figuring out why you are anxious and what I do when it flares up

In this brief episode, I talk about the helicopter approach to anxiety – figuring out why you are here dealing with anxiety. I go through my own recent mini flare up with anxiety and track the steps I take, all of which fall under the assess and address approach, to bring myself back to feeling

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