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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. My guest this week is a bit of a legend. Dr. Julie Smith, you'll know her on social media

as Dr. Julie. She's a clinical psychologist with over a decade of professional experience.

She's also an online educator and a social media star in her own right, having taken to TikTok and Instagram,

when she had the realization that a lot of what she was covering in her clinic with her patients should be made accessible to everyone for free. So she shares content

on those platforms all the time and she has amassed over 20 million likes and over 3.5 million

followers on TikTok. It's incredible. She speaks so much sense and she's got a new book out called

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? And it's a mental health manual for the 21st century covering issues such as stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, and how to support someone else's mental health.

So in this conversation we talk through, obviously our focus is anxiety and stress and the difference between the two, her couple mechanisms that she finds most effective, how she helps people, and then I

ask a couple of questions towards the end that I got followers to send into me. So we do touch

on quite a bit. There's a lot in it, so much of it. I'm in my head, I was making mental

notes of things to circle back to for myself. Next time I feel anxious. So yeah, I hope you find

it helpful. Dr. Julie is fantastic. She articulates everything so well. And yeah, I will always appreciate

your feedback, your comments, your shares, for anyone who you think might find this helpful.

And thank you as always for listening.

Dr. Julie Smith, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me on what's a pretty

dreary February morning here in Dublin. How are you wherever you are in the world?

I'm very good. Thank you. I'm in Hampshire in England. And it's pretty similar here, to be

fair. It's one of those dark days. But it's nice to be chatting to someone. So it's great.

There's so much that I want to chat to you about the book. First of all, massive congratulations. Why has nobody told me this before? It's been

number one in the UK for quite a long time now. Yeah, this is our fourth week, number one, which is

mind-blowing. I still can't believe it. It's unbelievable. It's such a testament to the work you do, the resource

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