Ep. 164: The Monsters That Live Inside Us w/ Sean Shinnock
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. On today's episode I am so excited to have Sean Shinnock with us. Sean is an amazing artist and mental health advocate and he is just one of the sweetest souls that I know. I am so thrilled to have Sean with me today to talk about the monsters that live inside us.
Now, for those of you who have heard Sean speak before, you know that he has a project called Draw Your Monster. The idea is for you to draw your monster, personify it, and actually bring that monster to life. You can then begin to have a conversation or a relationship with your monster which actually helps you with your recovery.
In our conversation today, we talk about our own monsters and what they look like, but we also go on to discuss the stigma and shame that lives within us and the pain that we go through when living with a chronic illness as well as a mental illness. We discuss the importance of accountability and strong support systems and we also have a beautiful conversation about vulnerability and simply being human. It really is such a lovely discussion with a dear, dear friend and I'm so excited for you guys to have a listen. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Sean's Instagram @sshinnock or @drawyourmonster
Sean's website www.sshinnock.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 164. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:15.4 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:18.7 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage |
| 0:22.5 | your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number |
| 0:30.2 | three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:39.7 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:50.0 | How are we all doing? |
| 0:53.7 | This is pre-recorded before the election, so I actually have no |
| 0:56.9 | idea how you guys are doing. I have no idea how I am doing. So I'm just here going to hope and |
| 1:03.3 | pray that y'all are doing okay and that your hearts are full and that you're taking care of the people |
| 1:10.7 | you love and you're breathing and that you're taking care of the people you love |
| 1:11.4 | and you're breathing and you're taking especially good care of you and whatever it is that |
| 1:21.1 | you're feeling. I really hope that that is where you are today. It is actually the night |
| 1:27.0 | before the election I'm getting all of these |
| 1:29.1 | episodes recorded ahead of time for reasons that I will share a little later. But like I said, |
| 1:34.9 | I don't know where you guys are. I don't know how things are going, but I am sending you love. |
| 1:39.1 | In this week's episode, we actually have one of my favorite people in the whole wide world coming on to have |
| 1:46.3 | a conversation that we have been meaning to have for a very long time. We kept postponing |
| 1:51.8 | and postponing for like almost a year and a half. And then we finally just said, hey, we have |
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