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#190 - TV Star Anna Williamson on Pressure, Anxiety & Mental Health

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Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Is life now like TV? Social media gives everyone an insight into your life, but is this causing, in some cases, more harm than good? More and more people live life like a celebrity, all their personal info, movements and feelings out in the open for judgement, but is this creating pressure, anxiety, and mental health issues? Do you get anxiety or feel pressured by the outside world and people looking in? I discuss this with the amazing Anna Williamson who has been through this herself in her growth as a celebrity. After hitting rock bottom she sought help, and has been better for it ever since, now moving into this work herself. While Anna might be a TV star, she is also a life coach and campaigner for mental health supporting such charities such as Mind. Visit Anna's website: http://lifecoachingbyanna.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio. We are back. I have someone, I got described on Twitter the other

0:08.7

day as a celebrity because I'm going to do a celebrity rugby match in London. Well, at the time of recording this I'm going to do a celebrity rugby match in London.

0:12.8

Well, at the time of recording this, I'm going on Sunday.

0:15.6

And the word celebrity for me was really weird.

0:18.2

But today I have actually like a genuine celebrity.

0:20.8

She does like TV and things. I pretend to do it. She actually does it.

0:25.6

Anna Williamson, hello.

0:28.3

Hello Ben and do you know what? I mean if you're a celebrity I'm a celebrity and vice first so that's how I see it. We're just normal people that are just happy to be alive doing what we do, right?

0:40.0

What I say is I'm a normal guy, I just like sound of my voice I just like to talk a lot but you just

0:45.2

tell me you don't like the sound of your voice? Well I didn't know what that was a bit of a

0:49.8

conflict I think within myself I have verbal diarrhea constantly I'm a professional gob on a stick

0:56.4

But when I hear it back I always cringe and go oh my god is that what you all have to listen to I do apologize

1:02.4

Yeah So is it my turn to speak

1:04.4

yet hello?

1:06.4

Terrible.

1:07.4

Anna give us some background there's going to be loads of people who you don't know who you are. What do you do? Who is Anna Williamson?

1:15.0

Yeah, great one. So first, hello everyone. It's so nice to be joining you. I'm a big fan of the show and it's been recommended to me by some of my private clients actually.

1:24.0

So yeah, my name's Anna and I've been a TV presenter first and foremost for the past 18 years.

1:29.2

I started out on children's TV so I started out doing all of the kids networks such

1:34.6

as Nickelodeon and Disney. But a lot of people that sort of watched this particular show,

1:41.6

kind of it was quite a cult sort of kids here.

1:44.5

It was a show called Toonatic that I presented on I TV for about five or six years.

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