11. Calm the F*ck Down! (8 Tips to Stop a Freakout in its Tracks)

No F*cks Given Podcast

Sarah Knight and Cadence13

Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In-the-moment strategies for anyone experiencing one of the “Four Faces of Freaking Out” that Sarah Knight describes in this episode: Anxiety, Sadness, Anger, or Avoidance (aka “Ostrich Mode”). Sarah offers up a technique from her bestselling book Calm the F*ck Down that she calls “sleight of mind.” It helps you shift your mindset from the freakout to its flip-side—like a f*cking magician!—at least for long enough to keep you from doing anything that’s going to make your situation WORSE. In addition to eight great tips (some of which you may have heard before and some that you definitely haven’t…), Sarah tells a personal story about “Mexican Airport Syndrome” and why you want to avoid it, and delivers a useful NFG tip of the week for anyone who suffers from anxiety-induced insomnia. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Radio.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episode every Tuesday. Today’s topics: 3 pillars of calming the f*ck down: ACKNOWLEDGE/ACCEPT/ADDRESS The 4 Faces of Freaking Out Welcome to the Flipside Sleight of Mind 8 top tips for freakout management Weekly NFG tip: “Tonight You, meet Tomorrow You” Visit www.nofucksgivenguides.com for more information and to sign up for the No F*cks Given Newsletter. Follow on Instagram and Facebook @nofucksgivenguides and Twitter @nofucksgiven. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to The No Fucks Given Podcast.
0:09.9	I'm your host Sarah Knight, author of The No Fucks Given Guides, a series of self-help
0:14.7	books for people like me who hate being told what to do.
0:19.0	Just like the books the podcast is fun, sweary, and full of tips and techniques for giving
0:23.8	fewer better fucks and living your best life.
0:26.8	Let's get to it!
0:28.6	First I just want to thank you for listening to The No Fucks Given Podcast for all the
0:32.3	people who have been here since the beginning a couple of months ago and for the new listeners.
0:36.9	I hope it's helping you.
0:38.5	I also hope it's entertaining you, but I really, really hope it's helping.
0:42.6	Like I said last week, this recent spate of episodes is geared toward anxiety and freaking
0:48.9	out and worrying of all varieties, not just people who have clinical anxiety, but people
0:54.3	who have shitstorms on the radar any given day and are just trying to deal with them,
0:59.5	keep their heads above water, you know, get through it all, solve some problems, particularly
1:04.4	without making them worse.
1:06.4	And to that end, I want to kick things off with a little segment I call Don't Get Me Started,
1:12.4	which is a way for me to get some thoughts out of the way up front so that we can get
1:17.0	down into the nitty gritty of solving things.
1:20.6	When I am freaking out, I hate it.
1:23.3	When people say everything's going to be okay, or it's not as bad as you think or look
1:28.6	on the bright side, the fact is sometimes shit is really, really bad and I don't want
1:34.8	the platitudes of somebody trying to talk me down and tell me that everything's going
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