EP 281: Eryn Phelps — Healing Anxiety & Trauma, Navigating Time Scarcity, & Getting Clear on What You Want

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Eryn Phelps is a licensed trauma counselor who specializes in helping outdoor athletes with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. We talked about how EMDR helped cancer survivor and podcast guest Sol Wertkin, how to navigate time scarcity and get clear on what you want, overwhelm and panic attacks, grief and shame, labels and identity, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing podcast. I'm Stephen Dimmit. This is my eternal
0:06.6	search for wisdom that can help us on our journeys as climbers and as human beings. My guest
0:13.6	today is Aaron Phelps. Aaron is a licensed trauma counselor who helps outdoor athletes tackle anxiety,
0:20.4	OCD, and PTSD from traumatic experiences
0:24.1	like injury or loss. And going into this episode, I didn't know if I personally would get
0:31.2	much value out of this conversation. I figured it would be interesting, but I could not have
0:36.1	been more wrong. I got a ton of value out
0:38.8	of this episode. I think many of you will as well. We spent quite a bit of time talking about
0:43.9	anxiety and OCD. We talked about how to navigate time scarcity, which is something I know a lot
0:50.8	of you struggle with. I struggle with that as well as how to get clear on your goals and what you want.
0:56.6	We talked about overwhelm, panic attacks, grief, and shame.
1:01.9	Plus, we dug into labels and identity and so much more.
1:06.3	This was a really good one.
1:07.5	I love talking to Aaron.
1:08.4	I think you guys are going to find this valuable.
1:10.6	Let's get into it. Please enjoy Aaron Phelps.
1:27.2	Is that Nat screwed in, that board thing to put it under my feet? Oh yeah, sure. Yeah. Would that be okay? Yeah, of course. Yeah, it's just resting there. Oh, that's so, that's so great. I'm just thinking that. What a creative use of that. We call chairs. Can you see if they're Phelps friendly or not? Can I sit? Phelps friendly. Phel or not. Can I sit all the way back and have my
1:48.3	feet on the ground? Totally. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you don't feel like a little kid. Right. That'll make
1:54.0	sitting here. Yeah. It's way better. Nice. Yeah, I just built that like three days ago. Well, thank you. Yeah.
2:00.3	I appreciate that. With you in mind. No, thank you. Yeah. I appreciate that.
2:00.9	With you in mind.
2:01.8	No, it's for a style of finger training that I do where you're like attached to the chain and using a force gauge to measure your load going through your fingers.
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