Brooke Averick: Naming Your Emotions
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tay sits down with author, comedian, podcast host and lifestyle creator Brooke Averick! Brooke shares about blowing up on TikTok during Covid and what that growth looked like, meeting Connor Wood and how their friendship led to launching their podcast together, and what they cover on it. Brooke gets candid about her mental health and OCD journey, including the signs that showed up at a very young age, who first noticed she was struggling, and how starting therapy early shaped the way she understands herself today. She talks about what she thinks people often get wrong about OCD, how simply naming an emotion (like saying "I feel anxious") has been one of the most powerful tools in her toolkit, and the boundaries she sets with social media to protect her mental health. She also shares the signs she watches for when she needs to slow down and check in with herself, and the self-care practices that help her reset. Brooke then shares where the idea for her book Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It came from, what she's learned about herself through the writing process, and what she hopes readers take away from it.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:03.5 | Did you know the whole internet? |
| 0:05.0 | It's just like a cable that runs under the whole ocean. |
| 0:10.8 | Brooke, welcome to the squeeze. |
| 0:12.4 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:13.8 | I don't really like bubbles. |
| 0:16.1 | And like that is like something that I'm insecure about. |
| 0:18.7 | Can you burp or do you have the thing where you can't? No, I love burping. Okay. The duvet cover. Me, my husband have a really good cycle of me, like going into the thing. And I like wiggle my hands up and he like puts it and then he like pulls it over my head. That is reason enough to get married. Honestly, yes. Something about naming an emotion is really helpful. Like if I'm nervous about something, I have to be like, I'm really nervous. If God forbid something happens where I like have a panic attack, like you knew it was a possibility. Are you under educational? Because I feel like your podcast could be very educational. I think we'd get sued if we were under educational because everything we say is somehow always just like a little bit exactly wrong. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm not Brooke on a date because if I was broke on a date, I'd be like throwing up on the table. |
| 0:58.4 | But I'm Brooke playing a girl going on a date. |
| 1:01.3 | And she's so confident and she's not throwing up at all. |
| 1:04.3 | Until after. |
| 1:04.9 | No. |
| 1:05.4 | Until she gets off. |
| 1:07.0 | And no one is around. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah. and no one is around. Yeah, exactly. Lemon drops, let me introduce to you today's guest, Brooke Averick. She's a content creator, |
| 1:30.5 | podcaster, and author who rose to prominence during the early TikTok era in 2020. Originally |
| 1:36.3 | working as a preschool teacher, she gained viral attention for her comedic, highly relatable |
| 1:41.0 | videos, especially one centered around reading her childhood diaries, interests of thoughts, |
| 1:46.0 | and anxiety-driven humor. Since then, she's best known for co-hosting Brooke and Connor make a podcast |
| 1:51.2 | with Connor Wood. Brooke shares her unfiltered honesty around mental health, including OCD, anxiety, |
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