Anxiety & Intrusive Thoughts with Ashly Burch

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Actor, writer & director Ashly Burch (Horizon series, Life Is Strange, Tiny Tina, Mythic Quest) joins Mal to chat about mental health. Ashly shares her mental health journey with OCD and anxiety, reflecting on childhood experiences and coping mechanisms like video games. The two discusses the importance of addressing personal issues, the role of joy, and the impact of relationships. Watch "I'm Happy You're Here" at: ⁠https://youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?feature=shared ⁠Follow our guest @ashlyburch, follow the show @madeitout and follow Mal @malglowenke 👉 Subscribe, like & comment to support queer content! Check out our new show, Out For A Drive, and please remember to subscribe, engage, like, comment, show us some love babyyyy! ⁠⁠https://youtu.be/Kk8c-SYuxpI?si=VU0CV9CTisXB4dro⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, welcome back to Made It Out. Before we get started on today's episode, I just want to take a
0:05.4	minute to remind you all that the best way to support Matilda and I in growing Made It Out,
0:11.9	made it out, made it out media, is to follow us on YouTube. Even if you only listen to us on Spotify,
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0:28.8	keep creating content for you all for free because that is what we want to be able to do. So we would
0:34.2	really, really appreciate it. Let's get into the episode. Today I'm sitting here with
0:37.7	voice actor Ashley Birch. And we talk a lot about her mental health journey. She struggled with
0:43.7	OCD over the course of her life. We talk about the tools she's used to help her over the years.
0:50.1	We talk about how to be in community and how to exist kind of in this world while everything
0:58.4	is very chaotic and hectic. And I share a lot about how I'm doing that and about my own mental
1:05.0	health journey and mine and Matild's relationship. So there's a lot in this episode. I loved talking to
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