Ep. 132: Full Circle with Andrea Barber
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this beautiful episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit, I speak with the amazing Andrea Barber about her new book, Full Circle: From Hollywood to Real Life and Back Again. In this interview, Andrea shares her experience with anxiety, panic and mental wellness. She shares
why she wrote this book and her hopes for this memoir.
In her book, Andrea Barber shares, "To fans, I've always been synonymous with my character, since most people don't know me in any other role. But now, I want you to accept the real me . . . and the fact that I'm nothing like I appear on TV. To know me is to realize that I am very flawed, and I have many shortcomings and insecurities. By sharing them with you, you may recognize things in yourself, and discover that you and I are not so unalike after all. For once, it will be nice to share Andrea with the world."
Andrea shared what it was like having a huge support system, but still feeling completely alone with her anxiety, panic and depression. Andrea spends some time talking about how her anxiety manifests in stomach related symptoms. She also tells us about the process of accepting the application of medication in her wellness journey and her experience with the side effects of medications.
I just adored when Andrea shared what she learned about herself since going through her mental health journey and her new reflection on mental illness and mental wellness. One of my favorite lines from her book, she shared "It's actually very empowering to think about: I have the power to change my life".
One of the coolest things about Andrea Barber is her passion for speaking about suicide prevention and awareness. You will just adore the advice she gives. And finally, her most impactful message is this: "The most important thing perspective has taught me, and what I want to tell anyone out there who has been made to feel too broken to love, is that your illness does not define you."
Isn't she just incredible?!
Andrea's book
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Circle-Hollywood-Real-Life/dp/0806539887
Follow Andrea on social media @andreabarber
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 132. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:15.4 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:18.8 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to |
| 0:21.8 | help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide |
| 0:28.1 | how you live your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you |
| 0:33.8 | with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:41.4 | let's go. Welcome back everybody to the Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast. I am so thrilled to have you here with me today. It is a beautiful |
| 0:58.1 | winter day here in California. It does not feel like winter here, which I'm thoroughly enjoying. |
| 1:06.2 | Today is going to be so exciting. I cannot wait to share with you the most rich, beautiful interview. |
| 1:14.6 | You guys, this one just brings me so much joy. So let me give you a little bit of the |
| 1:22.5 | backstory. When I was a kid, my parents would allow us, me, because I was the youngest, to watch one 30-minute show per week. |
| 1:33.7 | Now, we got to choose that show, and I would always choose the show, Full House. |
| 1:40.0 | I loved Full House. |
| 1:41.6 | I loved the people. |
| 1:43.5 | I loved the family. I loved the location. I just loved everything about it. And I just full house. I loved the people. I loved the family. I loved the location. I just loved |
| 1:46.3 | everything about it. And I just loved how silly and fun it was. And during that time, one of the |
| 1:52.8 | characters I most resonated with was Kimmy Gibbler. I loved Kimmy Gibbler. Not because I was that much like her. In fact, I wasn't much like her at all. |
| 2:03.9 | It's more that I wished I was like her. I think we all wished we were a little bit more like |
| 2:08.8 | Kimmy Gibbler. Now, fast forward to now, we have Fuller House, which is sort of the updated, |
| 2:16.3 | you know, grown-up version of Full House. |
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