#190 Reduce your anxiety in 10 minutes with Owen O’Kane
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
There are a few problems with therapy. It’s often hard to access, it can be costly, it’s hard to find the time to engage with a therapist and there is still, of course, a huge stigma around it.
But we know that it is a scientifically proven method of improving mental wellness. It improves brain chemistry and can reprogram neuropathways to help a person function in more helpful ways.
And that’s why I love the premise of Owen O’Kane’s latest book “How to be your own Therapist”. Teaching you the key fundamentals of therapy and how to apply these to your own life, alongside targeted tasks that only take 10 minutes a day.
All these techniques are steeped in a range tools including CBT, CFT, mindfulness, IP therapy, EMDR which why I absolutely trust and value Owen’s work so much.
Owen O’Kane, psychotherapist and former NHS Clinical Lead has been on the podcast before. We talked about where he grew up in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles,' the perfect training ground for understanding the anxious mind due to the conflict and fear that existed in the region. He’s also a former palliative care nurse. Owen heard first-hand the biggest regrets people have on their death beds and as a result, learnt about the stresses and worries we shouldn't hold onto.
Today we also talk about:
Psychological flexibility
Not allowing your happiness to be so cheap
Micro injections of intention and introspection
Therapy is less about Indulgence and more about courageousness
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| 0:00.0 | Dog Diskitches, recipes, health, lifestyle. |
| 0:06.0 | We have all these campaigns, it's good to talk, get talking, there are a hundred campaigns |
| 0:10.2 | that are on talking. |
| 0:11.9 | But we have to consider, you know, an Amigurte start and produce a right type of talking |
| 0:16.0 | because for example, if you have anxiety and your talking is about constantly needing |
| 0:20.8 | reassured or looking for reassurance or checking for details or whatever the contact may be, |
| 0:26.4 | that is not the right type of talking for you and if someone colludes with that, that's |
| 0:30.2 | actually their feet in the anxiety. |
| 0:31.6 | So that's not the right type of talking. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Doctor Rupi, your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer |
| 0:53.8 | in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:59.7 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you |
| 1:05.4 | to lead your best life. |
| 1:12.5 | There are a few problems with therapy. |
| 1:14.8 | It's often hard to access, it can be costly, it's hard to find the time to engage with |
| 1:19.8 | the therapist and still of course there is a huge stigma around it. |
| 1:24.2 | But we know that it is scientifically proven as a method of improving mental wellness, |
| 1:30.4 | it improves brain chemistry, it can reprogram neuro pathways to help a person function |
| 1:35.0 | in more helpful ways. |
| 1:36.8 | That's why I love the promise of Owen O'Kane's latest book, How to Be Your Own Therapist. |
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