Georgia Pritchett, MY MESS IS A BIT OF A LIFE: Adventures in Anxiety
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Screenwriter Georgia Pritchett joins Zibby to talk about her debut memoir, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life, which takes readers through her experience dealing with lifelong anxiety and a number of crises that have arisen along the way. Georgia shares how the book stemmed from advice from a therapist who recommended she write everything that had happened to her when she found herself unable to share verbally, what life is like raising two neuroatypical children (as well as how it has impacted her mental health), and why she's only now beginning to show herself more kindness for what she went through. Zibby also asks Georgia about her time writing for the hit HBO show Succession, which is one of Zibby's favorites.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.9 | Georgia Pritchett is the author of My Mess Is a Bit of a Life, Adventures in Anxiety. |
| 0:46.4 | Georgia is a multi-award winning comedy and drama writer. Her writing and production credits |
| 0:51.0 | include Veep, Have I Got News for You, Smack the Pony, Not Going |
| 0:54.9 | Out, The Thick of It, and most recently The Shrink Next Door on Apple TV. She is currently a writer |
| 1:01.6 | and co-executive producer on HBO's critically acclaimed show Succession, now in its third season. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome, Georgia. Thank you so much for coming on Momsdown. |
| 1:10.8 | Have Time to read books to discuss My Mess is a Bit of a Life, Adventures in Anxiety. |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you so much for inviting me. It's my pleasure. As fellow anxiety sufferer, I could not |
| 1:23.1 | wait to pick this book up and see what your adventures were like. So tell me, I know in the book, |
| 1:30.8 | you have this, I don't know if it was fictitious or not, this encounter with the therapist |
| 1:34.4 | where you decide to write your feelings down because you had trouble talking about them. |
| 1:37.8 | And then, of course, you loop it all together at the end because you're so good at telling a story. |
| 1:42.1 | Is that how it happened or when did you decide that is how it |
| 1:45.8 | happened? Yes. That's exactly how it happened. Yes. Yeah, I don't know how to break it to you, |
| 1:50.0 | but I'm British. And that is another way of saying socially awkward and emotionally repressed. |
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