738: Warming Up To Pleasure To Quell Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, drawing from the works of both Sarah Bon Brannock and Dr. Claire Weekes, Gina discusses the importance of staying occupied as we recover from anxiety. Staying involved with pleasurable activities, such as hobbies, can work wonders for the anxiety recovery journey. Listen in for tips on how to do so today!
Books mentioned in today’s episode
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy Hardcover
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Self Help for your Nerves by Dr Claire Weekes
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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| 0:00.0 | And they are some our guide for Marmite first timers. First toast your pillowy soft bread. |
| 0:08.0 | Push that. |
| 0:10.0 | Liberally spread that butter. Stroke that Marmite open. |
| 0:16.0 | Dip that knife and spread that. Don't overload. |
| 0:22.0 | And taste that. Marmite. Love it. |
| 0:27.0 | Hate it. Get it on. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them from life. |
| 1:18.0 | Aloha. Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | In today's episode, I'm talking about warming up to pleasure in order to quell anxiety. |
| 1:35.0 | So I wanted to start today by reading a little daily excerpt out of Sarah, Bonn, Bronnx, wonderful book, simple abundance. |
| 1:49.0 | And it is a day book of comfort and joy. And I have been reading out of this book for many, many, many years. |
| 1:56.0 | It's a beautiful book and has a lot of wonderful readings. And today's, if you are listening to the episode on the day that this show actually dropped July 28th, this is out of her book for July 28th. |
| 2:12.0 | And it is called the plie of pleasure. And the quote is interesting as she has a quote at first and then a little daily reading. |
| 2:22.0 | The quote is, what is your hobby? Every woman ought to have some pet interest in life outside of the everyday routine which composes her regular occupations. What is yours? |
| 2:36.0 | End of quote. And that's from the mother's magazine January 1915. |
| 2:44.0 | Just wanted you to see how long we've been having some of these issues of needing to find some pleasure in our lives. |
| 2:52.0 | And Sarah goes on to say, there is a vitality, a life force and energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. |
| 3:04.0 | And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And she says that modern dancer Martha Graham advises us, and I quote, |
| 3:18.0 | and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. |
| 3:26.0 | So where are you black? She says, a hobby is a wonderful way to start freeing ourselves creatively. That's because no one expects us to be perfect at a hobby. |
| 3:40.0 | Habbies allow us to experiment, to dabble with the paint, the poem, the pot, the plie. |
| 3:48.0 | When ballet dancers speak of doing plie's, they mean bending their knees. |
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