Owning It: Cassie Stokes talks heartbreak, agoraphobia and prawn-induced anxiety (yes)
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As mentioned in the podcast intro, here is the link to my upcoming event in The Alex hotel. It's a publishing masterclass for anyone who's ever dreamed of writing a book. There will be more events coming soon specifically themed around anxiety so stay tuned for those.
This week Cassie Stokes of Xpose fame joins me to talk about her recent experience of heartbreak and the anxiety that goes along with it, as well as how anxiety manifested for her from the age of 20, including a fear of prawns, a fear of people in large crowds, a fear of being sick on modes of transport and more. Through therapy and CBT skills that she still uses to this day, she's managing it well. She knows it will always be there but she understands it and has the coping mechanisms necessary to own it.
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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. |
| 0:21.7 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to to owning it, the anxiety podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | This week on the series, I am joined by Cassie Stokes, presenter on Expoise, an LGBT |
| 0:31.9 | rights activist, and we had an amazing chat around anxiety, of as is the theme of the series and cassie's |
| 0:40.0 | experience from a 20 year old 21 year old having really horrible panic attacks in dundrum shopping |
| 0:46.9 | centre to developing a fear of prawns of all things she has since gotten over that which you'll |
| 0:53.2 | hear her discuss. And also, |
| 0:54.9 | we talk about her recent experience of heartbreak, which, as you know, if you've ever experienced |
| 0:59.0 | it, is such a driver of anxiety. And I've gotten so many messages from people asking me if I |
| 1:03.9 | would cover anxiety and relationships. And Cassie absolutely does that for me here. Doesn't mean I |
| 1:09.2 | won't go into it in more depth at a later |
| 1:11.1 | point, but Cassie's experience of having love and losing it and getting used to life on |
| 1:17.2 | your own again and trying to be grateful for what you've had and lost is really remarkable. |
| 1:24.0 | So hope you enjoyed my chat with Cassie. I certainly did and I learned a lot from her outlook. |
| 1:33.2 | Also, I just wanted to add in. Obviously, you know, I'm an author of owning it and the confidence kit and I'm currently writing my third book, but there was a time when I had absolutely no clue about |
| 1:37.9 | the publishing world. I had no idea how to get the attention of editors or commissioning editors. |
| 1:43.1 | I had no idea about rights or royalties or |
| 1:45.5 | getting your book marketed internationally. The editing process, there's just, it's a whole, |
| 1:50.3 | whole world of unknown until you're into it. And I know there's a lot of people listening and people |
| 1:55.4 | who follow me on social media who are, they have a great idea for a book or they're thinking |
| 1:59.5 | they might like to explore something, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, and they're not sure how to go about it. And this was me also. |
| 2:05.1 | So I have decided to put on another publishing masterclass. I did one last summer and it went |
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