E135 - Owen O'Kane: Why self care is vital for high performance

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Owen O’Kane is a psychotherapist, former NHS Mental Health Lead and author of the best-selling book, How To Be Your Own Therapist. Owen grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, he struggled to accept his sexuality as a gay man - once even trying to be 'healed' of his homosexuality during a visit to Lourdes. He has had a varied career, from training to be a priest, to working in palliative care - this is reflected in Owen’s open and well-rounded understanding of humanity.

In this powerful episode Jake and Damian open up about their own worries, fears and negative thoughts. Owen takes them through how to tackle the noise in their mind and escape the ‘overthinking trap’. His key message is how important therapy can be and how we should all be trying to make ourselves happier.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Jay Comforty and you're listening to high performance, a gift to you for free
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0:08.2	Now before we go any further can I just let you know if you don't know already that we
0:11.6	have launched high performance plus it's a new subscription service and as always if
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0:40.9	Q&A's with myself and Damien Hughes it's basically a chance to get closer to high
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1:05.8	subscription service high performance plus on with today's episode as always this podcast
1:12.2	is here to remind you that it's within and I think this episode is going to do that probably
1:17.4	more than any other episode that you've listened to because we often speak to the world's
1:22.6	greatest leaders think as sports stars and entrepreneurs so that we can help turn their
1:27.2	lived experiences into your life lessons well today you're going to hear from a psychotherapist
1:33.9	a psychotherapist who has dual medical and psychotherapy training he was a former clinical
1:38.7	lead for an NHS mental health service and I promise you okay if you're suffering with
1:44.2	stress if you're suffering with anxiety if you're finding life overwhelming our guest today
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