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Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Owning It: Dr Soph on how to make social comparison work for you

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

I am joined by Dr Soph for this episode, she is absolutely fantastic, I have adored following her for years now. She is a clinical psychologist and now author of A Manual For Being Human. She breaks down anxiety in way that make it so easy to understand and move forward with. Here we talk through her approach for understanding why you're here (feeling anxious), what's keeping you here and how to move forward. We talk about therapy and therapists, how to flip social comparison on its head and lots more. I'm sure you will find her as wonderful as I do. Her book is out now.

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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.

0:26.1

Have you heard of Dr. Sof?

0:30.7

Well, she's a registered clinical psychologist who I have had the pleasure of following on Instagram for years now and I just adore her accessible, relatable approach to mental

0:35.2

health and anxiety in particular.

0:37.3

Known for breaking down

0:38.2

sharing the information usually kept behind therapy room doors, Dr. Sof has much to my delight

0:43.4

just published her first book and it's called a manual for being human. Quite literally, it is a manual.

0:49.4

What I love most about this book is how practical it is. It's like therapy in a book,

0:53.5

a proactive, easy-to-follow

0:54.8

toolkit for anyone at all, wishing to gain a better understanding of their mental

0:58.3

health. It's full of prompts, go-to techniques and digestible explanations for so many

1:03.2

mental health questions that we have. This book will help people to better understand themselves

1:07.2

and you know by now, listening to me just how important it is to start by understanding

1:11.6

what we're dealing with before setting about implementing any changes a manual for being human by

1:16.7

dr sov is available now on audiobook e-book and good old-fashioned hardbacks too dr soph i'm so thrilled to be joined by you this morning on owning it the anxiety podcast.

1:34.0

I've actually wanted to have you on the series for so long.

1:36.5

I am quite the fan girl of yours.

1:39.4

So thank you for joining me.

1:41.3

Oh my word.

1:41.8

Thank you so much for inviting me and equal fan girl in the

1:46.7

return direction. Thank you. Well, I have just adored hoovering up your Instagram content over the

1:53.3

last few years. I love how much you demystify the world of therapy and clinical psychology and

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