Owning It: Is curiosity the key to calming anxiety? With Poppy Jamie
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
For this episode I am joined by the founder of Happy Not Perfect the app plus the new book of the same name, Poppy Jamie. She has an incredibly illustrious career behind her with a refreshingly honest story. As much as I know about anxiety today, Poppy said many things that really gave me an a-ha moment, making me think twice bout things. She offers in this podcast, a step-by-step approach to dissolving anxiety in the moment. Most notably, she's all about employing curiosity as her most reliable tool for quelling anxiety when it rises. I found her insights here incredibly helpful and I'm sure you will too. A conversation I didn't realise I needed to have until I'd had it.
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| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the Anxiety Podcast with me, Caroline Forin. My guest on the series this week is the incredible Poppy Jamie. She is just such a |
| 0:34.6 | wonderful person. She has an incredible way of articulating what we all need |
| 0:38.8 | to hear and making it really actionable. She is the founder of the incredibly popular app, Happy Not Perfect, |
| 0:44.1 | which helps over 90 million people worldwide to manage their anxiety and their unhelpful thoughts. |
| 0:49.8 | And she has just brought out a new book of the same name, Happy Not Perfect, Upgrade Your Mind, |
| 0:53.9 | challenge your thoughts and free yourself from anxiety. She talks a lot about her own experience, |
| 0:58.7 | her battle with perfectionism, her own mental health struggles and what led her to this journey. |
| 1:04.1 | And the book encourages readers to challenge their core beliefs. I think core beliefs is something |
| 1:07.5 | we've touched on a bit before, but it's really, it's quite a tricky thing to unpack. So we talk about that. And also, most, most importantly, Poppy shares her |
| 1:15.8 | flex strategy to handling anxiety. So the flex method, it's a little bit flexible thinking, flexy thoughts |
| 1:22.5 | that prioritise love, forgiveness, optimism and growth. And what I really like about this approach is |
| 1:27.4 | how it encourages |
| 1:28.4 | us to become curious about our anxiety and about the feelings that we tend to want to run away from, |
| 1:32.9 | which really helps us to unlock the feeling in the first place. So I have a great chat with Poppy. |
| 1:37.6 | It turns into maybe a little bit of a therapy session for me as she helps me with my own |
| 1:41.8 | insecurities that I've been feeling lately. And yeah, I hope you |
| 1:45.0 | enjoy it. She's brilliant and I'm sure you'll get something from it as I did. And definitely |
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