Ep. 167: Using Poetry to Turn Pain into Beauty w/ Georgia Lock
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. Today on the podcast, I am so thrilled to have such an amazing and talented guest, Georgia Lock, on with us. Georgia is an actor, presenter, OCD advocate, and poet. She lives in London and has so much wisdom and beauty to share with us. Georgia is here to share how she has used poetry to turn the pain of her experience with OCD into beauty.
Georgia shares her OCD story and recovery journey with us. We also have a great conversation about shame, guilt, and grief. Georgia shares several of her poems with us and you will see why she is an award winning poet. Her poetry explains so well what it is like to live with mental illness, anxiety, and OCD. I just love when people can use words to perfectly describe what it is like to experience something, whether that be really joyful or really, really painful. Her poetry takes the pain that she has experienced and wraps it in such beauty.
I truly hope you enjoy this conversation. It is a lovely story about someone who has struggled so deeply, but who also has done the work and is now moving on in her recovery journey in such a beautiful way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 167. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:15.7 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:19.0 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools |
| 0:21.9 | to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:24.3 | Second goal, to inspire you. |
| 0:26.7 | Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. |
| 0:30.1 | And number three, and I leave the best for last, |
| 0:33.0 | is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug |
| 0:37.4 | because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:41.5 | let's go. Well, welcome back. This, oh my goodness, I get so geeked out about this stuff. |
| 0:53.5 | So you guys know I love poetry. I really do. I wish I was a poet. I really need to try more at, you know, mastering that art because it's an art that I admire and love so much. And one day I was scrolling through Instagram and I came across an |
| 1:14.6 | Instagram account who was reciting poetry and it was so exquisite. It explained what it's like |
| 1:23.6 | to have mental illness, anxiety and OCD to the T. And I immediately jumped on and |
| 1:31.6 | DMed and was like, please can we have you on the podcast? This is totally at my alley. I just love |
| 1:37.9 | when people can use words to perfectly describe what it's like to experience something, whether that be really |
| 1:48.3 | joyful or really, really painful. I just love the way that poetry can wrap pain in beauty. |
| 1:59.2 | I really love that. So I'm so excited to have with us today, Georgia Locke. Georgia is an |
| 2:08.8 | actor, a presenter and a poet. She lives in London. She is such a rich old soul. I adored spending time with her. We actually got really into some |
| 2:22.4 | really great topics about shame and guilt and loss and grief and anxiety. And it was so wonderful |
| 2:33.2 | to spend time with her and hear, like I said, this wisdom |
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