Annalie Howling | Frenemys, Shame & Burn Out Part 1
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Performance Coach, Author and host of a brand new podcast, Annalie Howling is on the sofa this week to tell us all about her own inspiring journey, her amazing therapy work with high powered athletes and CEO's and what they all have in common. Annalie explains the real meaning behind common therapy terms that get thrown around recklessly online from Gas lighting and Narcissisim to frenemys and covert jealousy - PLUS her warnings against the fake gurus and toxicity amongst the wellness industry. Get ready to take notes!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to a brand new episode of Private Parts with me Live Bentley. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a podcast where nothing is off limits. |
| 0:08.0 | Make sure you subscribe and follow us wherever it is that you get your podcast |
| 0:12.0 | and you can watch every glorious episode on our YouTube, which is at Private Parts Pod. |
| 0:18.0 | Today I have a glorious guest joining me on the sofa. She's an author, |
| 0:22.8 | performance coach, therapist, an all-round empowering woman. It's Anna Lee Howling. |
| 0:27.5 | Aw, thank you. Sorry, I had to, I nearly had to stop for breath there. I was like, fucking |
| 0:32.8 | hell. I'm buzzing about this, by the way. So just to start off with, a little bit of background about you. |
| 0:38.3 | Sure. |
| 0:39.3 | Pottered history did all the stuff that I thought I should be doing, you know, trying to be a good girl. |
| 0:45.3 | Had a massive traumatic childhood. We can dig fully into that if we want to. |
| 0:49.3 | Was living with self-harm and OCD for years, but masking it brilliantly. |
| 0:54.8 | Like hyper-perfectionism, massive people-pleasing. |
| 0:58.4 | Because I didn't want people to get to know me, so much better that I meet everyone else's needs and try and be perfect instead. |
| 1:04.9 | Led to a huge burnout when I was 29. I'm about to turn 45. |
| 1:09.5 | Had got divorced as well, had my daughter. So kind of a lot happened in that time. But during that period, I found doing sort of the healing work myself. I do EMDR. I really want to find out more about that, by the way. So let's talk about that. Happy to talk about that. Yeah, that turned my life around. That really changed my life. Yeah. |
| 1:28.5 | How old were you, sorry, when you started going to all this? So this sounds a bit bizarre, |
| 1:33.0 | but I just want to be really honest about it. I, it was subconscious for me. I didn't know what was |
| 1:38.5 | like running my engine, if you like. I just knew that I wanted to be financially autonomous and |
| 1:43.5 | successful. I knew that my |
| 1:45.1 | home life was not safe, but I hadn't, if you like, recognised how much damage it had done |
| 1:50.5 | to me inside. So I just had this pursuit of work, work, work, work, did my MBA in economics, |
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