Jackson Galaxy: Emotional Guardrails, Language of Empathy & The Social Anxiety Corner
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Jackson Galaxy (Host & Executive Producer of My Cat from Hell, animal advocate, cat behavior expert, author, musician) opens up about his struggles with social anxiety, substance abuse, and disordered eating. After an illuminating installment of "What Mayim Hears", Jackson discusses growing up wanting to be a rock star and how playing guitar and busking at an early age helped him combat anxiety. He details his use of food as a comfort tool and alcohol as a social lubricant before he discovered the benefits provided by the structure of rituals. Mayim and Jackson break down how misdiagnoses and ineffective prescriptions can lengthen one’s mental health journey, the biological instincts tied to social anxiety, and navigating society as an empath. They bond over their shared love for the energetic minefield that is New York City, disordered eating as a public person, desires to be terminally unique involutes, and of course, their love of cats.
Jackson Galaxy's Website: https://www.jacksongalaxy.com/
Jackson Galaxy's Books: https://shop.jacksongalaxy.com/collections/books
Jackson Galaxy Cat Camp: https://www.catcamp.com/
Jackson Galaxy Project: https://greatergood.org/jackson-galaxy
Best Friends Animal Society: https://bestfriends.org/
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| 0:00.0 | And I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I had a dream last night and I think it |
| 0:06.7 | was a doctor who said, you are fat. |
| 0:11.4 | That word is so loaded, you know. |
| 0:15.0 | Whereas I do feel like I've actually strengthened the alcoholic side of me in terms of the depth |
| 0:21.4 | of my commitment and my program, the food just the devil reappeared. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, I'm Mayan Biallik and welcome to my breakdown. |
| 0:30.8 | This is the place where we break things down so you don't have to. |
| 0:34.0 | It's Mayan Biallik's breakdown. |
| 0:37.2 | She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows a thing or two. |
| 0:42.4 | And now she's going to break down. |
| 0:44.9 | It's a breakdown. |
| 0:46.2 | She's going to break it down. |
| 0:48.8 | This is a fun one today. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm smiling. |
| 0:52.4 | You might be listening, but you could probably still hear that I'm smiling because today |
| 0:57.4 | we're going to be talking with Jackson Galaxy. |
| 1:01.2 | That's right, the cat daddy. |
| 1:03.2 | Today, we're going to be breaking down. |
| 1:05.9 | We're just going to be breaking down Jackson Galaxy, the whole human. |
| 1:09.5 | I actually thought we'd talk mostly about cats. |
| 1:12.8 | We talk very little about cats and a lot about gosh, social anxiety and the things that |
| 1:21.6 | underlie food addiction and alcoholism. |
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