OWNING IT: Blindboy shares his anxiety story
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Blindboy - of the very successful The Blindboy Podcast - and author of his latest book Boulevard Wren and other stories. Blindboy tells me about his experience with anxiety as a young adult, the origins of that anxiety, how he looks after himself these days and everything he learned from his psychotherapy studies. We also talk about anxiety among men and how to get comfortable with uncomfortable feelings. Blindboy has a unique way of articulating what anyone who has experienced anxiety has felt and I really enjoyed chatting with him. His book would be a great stocking filler this Christmas!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to owning it. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline |
| 0:27.9 | Forin. If you're listening to this episode, the week that it's been published, I think I can |
| 0:31.9 | safely wish you a happy and relaxing Christmas. And just remember, if you feel overwhelmed |
| 0:36.1 | or anxious at any point throughout the next |
| 0:38.0 | week or two, your breath is always your anchor. So take five, do some deep belly breathing and remind |
| 0:43.5 | yourself that you've got this. For Christmas week, I thought who better to chat with than the man |
| 0:48.7 | who needs no introduction, but I'll give him one anyway, blind boy. So he asked me actually to make sure and reference |
| 0:54.9 | his podcast, which I thought was hilarious, because if you're not, if you're Irish and you're not |
| 0:58.3 | already aware of his podcast, you must be living under one enormous rock. The man was like |
| 1:03.5 | the founding father of podcasts in Ireland. So it's called a Blind Boy podcast for those maybe one |
| 1:08.8 | or two of you who aren't aware and it's incredibly successful and such a wonderful resource for mental health and well-being, as well |
| 1:15.0 | as an insight into what is a very creative and inspiring and refreshing mind. His latest book is |
| 1:21.7 | Boulevard Wren, which I've been reading and really enjoying, and as a year drew to a close, |
| 1:25.7 | he was kind enough to give me an hour of his time to talk |
| 1:27.7 | about anxiety on my little podcast. Honestly I've had such incredible chats throughout the whole year |
| 1:33.2 | but nobody articulates it as well as Blind Boy. I was nodding my head at every sentence to such |
| 1:39.0 | an extent I actually left the studio with a pain in my neck. So I hope you enjoy this podcast as much |
| 1:43.7 | as I enjoyed recording |
| 1:45.0 | it this particular episode. And if you're in the Christmas present giving mood this particular |
| 1:48.8 | week and you want to you want to subscribe as a patron to the owning a tip jar, you can do so by |
| 1:54.1 | going to patreon.com forward slash Caroline Forin. And obviously, you know, I want to thank everyone so |
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