Ep. 142: The Poetry Bandit
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. You guys, you are going to love this episode with one of my favorite poets of all time, The Poetry Bandit. Jon Lupin, aka The Poetry Bandit joins us today to tell us his story about sobriety, OCD, relationships, mental health and how poetry has helped him through.
This is a story about honesty, vulnerability, and commitment. The Poetry Bandit shares his story and together we talk about some of the hidden meanings of his poetry. Jon and I got to read a few of his poetry pieces and talk about how he manages his anxiety, OCD, and sobriety while being a father, employee, friend and poet.
If you get a chance, check out The Poetry Bandit's books of poetry. The links are below.
Encyclopedia of a Broken Heart: Poems
You Only Love Me When I'm Suffering: Poems
Jon's Instagram @the_poetrybandit
Please join the IOCDF for a COVID-19 & OCD Live Townhall. Saturday March 28th at 2 PM EST. Bring your questions for Kimberley, Ethan Smith, Jon Hershfield, and Stuart Ralph. https://www.facebook.com/IOCDF/
Kimberley did a FREE Self-Compassion webinar on The Peace of Mind Foundation's FB page. https://www.facebook.com/peaceofmindfoundation/
Did you know that we were listed in the top 10 OCD podcasts to follow in 2020? https://blog.feedspot.com/ocd_podcasts/
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 142. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:16.0 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:19.0 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools |
| 0:22.3 | to help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you |
| 0:29.2 | live your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one |
| 0:35.2 | big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:40.4 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:48.5 | Welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:52.7 | We're still taking breaths, and I know you are too. |
| 0:56.7 | It's been tough, hasn't it? |
| 0:58.9 | You know, it's been tough. |
| 1:02.2 | You know, I know I did a whole episode about the coronavirus last week, |
| 1:06.1 | and I hope if you haven't listened to it, go back and just hear my thoughts |
| 1:10.4 | and I give you a couple |
| 1:12.0 | of my favorite tools to manage anxiety and uncertainty. |
| 1:17.1 | And this week, I was scrambling, actually, to figure out what I wanted to talk about. |
| 1:25.5 | And what kept ringing to me is I just wanted something that came |
| 1:29.9 | from the heart, something that was rich, something that was empowering, and just human, maybe just |
| 1:37.2 | a little not related to coronavirus. And it dawned on me that I had this amazing interview that I did about a month ago, ready to go. |
| 1:50.7 | And I cannot tell you how excited I am now. As soon as I saw it, I was like, that's perfect. |
| 1:56.3 | That's exactly the message I want to give. So today we have the amazing John Lupin and he is here to spread his |
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