Ep. 955: Conquering 30 Years of Anxiety Through Adventure - Revisited - Paula McGuire
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Adventure Travel: Paula McGuire Overcomes Crippling Anxiety Through Daily Adventures Since 2012 – From Recluse to Thriving Trier. 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 | Hey, folks, this is an episode with Paula McGuire. This is a revisited episode. It is Thursday. By the way, my name's Mason. I am not hosting this one. This one's from 2017 when Kurt was the host. And Paula must try harder McGuire. That's her, Must Try Harder, isn't exactly your average adventurer. |
| 0:40.4 | She doesn't own a sleeping bag, in fact. |
| 0:42.9 | She's 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 escape. |
| 0:52.6 | Thirty years of crippling social anxiety. I don't know about |
| 0:55.2 | you, but I definitely deal with anxiety. I don't think anybody doesn't. There are a few people that, |
| 1:00.2 | honestly, I don't think my brothers deal with anxiety. I don't think they can even register it. |
| 1:04.6 | They're just like the most non-anxious people in the whole world. And I'm jealous because I can |
| 1:10.0 | worry myself to death. But anyway, |
| 1:11.7 | how worked up I can get over anxiety is nothing compared to what Paula was getting to. And so her 30 |
| 1:18.4 | years of crippling social anxiety was brought to a halt and overcome through personal |
| 1:24.4 | therapy and adventure, putting herself out there, doing things that are very |
| 1:29.5 | hard. And even for a seasoned adventure, I've talked to somebody last week that wins almost every |
| 1:34.4 | race they're in, ultras, huge races, does these crazy challenges. Every single race, they are |
| 1:42.0 | absolutely just consumed with anxiety about the experience, but they know |
| 1:47.6 | that that is almost a necessary entry ticket into this life-changing experience a lot of time. |
| 1:53.7 | So you can take that. |
| 1:55.7 | The anxiety being present is not necessarily a bad thing. |
| 1:58.3 | It's how you respond to it and how you deal with it, knowing that everyone to a degree is feeling that way. So I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 2:06.4 | I hope you'll learn from it. I hope you're inspired by Paula's story. I know I was and I know I am. |
| 2:11.4 | I'm excited to give it a re-listen. And yeah, let's go ahead and dive in. |
| 2:28.8 | Thank you. And yeah, let's go ahead and dive in. Hello again, friends. |
| 2:30.1 | Thanks again for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
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