Ep. 552: Conquering 30 Years of Anxiety Through Adventure Revisited - Paula McGuire
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Originally Published August 31, 2017
Paula ‘Must Try Harder’ McGuire isn’t exactly your average adventurer. She doesn’t even own a sleeping bag. In fact, Paula spent her early years hiding from life and seeking better places to hide, eventually finding her world shrinking to the confines of her own home without an escape route. Thirty years of crippling social anxiety will do that to a girl. Adventure became Paula’s personal therapy in 2012 and, ever since, she has terrified herself daily in the name of recovery. So far, it’s working.
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| 0:00.0 | At one point, we flew straight up into the air, cut the engine, and fell back down. |
| 0:04.5 | It was just one of the most exhilarating things that I've ever experienced. |
| 0:09.4 | And then the pilot kindly gave me control and let me fly. |
| 0:14.1 | So we're going upside down and I was flying it. |
| 0:19.1 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:25.4 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, |
| 0:29.8 | and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 0:43.8 | I can't. I cannot believe it's already August 1st. |
| 0:47.6 | Like 2019 is well over halfway over. |
| 0:49.0 | That is crazy to me. |
| 0:50.9 | Honestly, it gives me a little anxiety. |
| 0:59.2 | And about two years ago, we talked to a lady on the show, Paula McGuire, who had faced 30 years of crippling social anxiety to where her only place of refuge was her own home |
| 1:05.6 | and nothing outside of that. |
| 1:07.1 | And she used adventure to break out of that. |
| 1:09.3 | And her story is this interview. And it's a great |
| 1:12.7 | one. And we wanted to replay it because for a lot of us, I know, you know, school starting back up for |
| 1:18.1 | kids, summer's going to be wrapping up, you know, in a couple weeks or a month or so for you. And |
| 1:24.4 | anxiety has got a hold of a lot of us. I know it does. |
| 1:28.3 | To the point where we're, you know, scared to take risks, scared to take trips, what if my body doesn't hold up? |
| 1:33.6 | What if I can't afford it? |
| 1:34.8 | What if? |
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