Ask Anna - If anyone else asks me to 'take a deep breath' I'll explode

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this Monday episode of the brand new Ask Anna series, Anna is joined by Hannah Barrett, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer and Author.

Together Anna and Hannah tackle the following connundrum:

"Twice this week people have told me to take a deep breath in a nice way.
It made me realise how I'm breathing in that panicky stressful way half the time. I try to do breath work and slow down with yoga, but it weirdly makes me feel tearful and more stressed. I know I need to slow my body and mind down, but how can I when all the usual things everyone recommends just makes it feel worse, and how do I find the time?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Therapy Edit. I'm your host, Psychotherapist and author Anna Martha. I will be bringing you bite-sized episodes twice a week full of tips, wise words from expert guests and insights to support your mental well-being.
0:16.3	Hi, everyone. Welcome to today's Ask Anna episode of The Therapy Edit and I have got a guest
0:22.2	with me and an expert guest and to introduce her, Hannah Barrett, who you will have seen me
0:28.4	mention on Instagram if you follow me over there so many times over the years. I met Hannah
0:34.1	at a retreat where she was teaching a yoga class and I think I was doing a talk and we just
0:39.0	completely hit it off and I I'm a big fan of all of Hannah's kind of the way that she does yoga
0:46.6	and the way that she teaches breath work and the way she's got an app and I absolutely love it.
0:51.9	It's called Yoga Happy and it's just I mean I'm always on there doing the 10 minute yoga flows because I just often do those in the morning. But I'm just so grateful for her. She is an international yoga teacher. She's also a yoga teacher trainer. I dream one day of doing her yoga teacher training course.
1:11.9	She is an author.
1:13.6	She's got an amazing book.
1:16.0	She's got some brilliant kind of yoga cards.
1:19.4	If you want to do some yoga and you just want some little prompts, they're absolutely beautiful.
1:20.4	And she's a wellness advocate and she is dedicated to empowering people and helping them find
1:25.7	strength and calm amidst the chaos of life through yoga.
1:30.1	She's got a new book, The Yoga Happy Year, and that is out just in, just around Christmas time.
1:36.1	Is it, Hannah, is it out the 26th of December?
1:38.7	No, it's on the 17th, isn't it?
1:40.6	No, no, 26th.
1:41.6	You're right.
1:41.9	It's on Boxing Day.
1:43.5	On the Boxing Day. On Boxing Day.
1:45.5	Amazing.
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