Owning It: No BS techniques to calm anxiety with Dermot Whelan

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dermot Whelan, comedian and radio presenter Dermot Whelan talks shares his story of anxiety, how he burned himself out to the point of arriving at a comedy festival (where he was due to perform) in an ambulance. After reaching this crescendo, Dermot eventually found meditation, and though it was somewhat underwhelming, he noticed a much calmer version of himself begin to emerge. Now he is a meditation teacher and has learned many techniques to dissolve anxiety, which he shares here. With humour and simplicity, Dermot will convince you that focusing on your breath is perhaps your most under utilised anxiety reducing tool. His new book, Mind Full, is out now and is a super enjoyable and informative read that will open your world to meditation and its many benefits.

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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.
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1:24.7	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, your host, Caroline Forin.
1:31.1	This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to welcome back, Dermott Wheelan, who was on before with his,
1:37.5	he calls him his workwife, Dave, Dermott and Dave of Today FM, popular show here in Ireland,
1:43.0	to talk about his experience of anxiety. This time he's
1:46.3	here as an expert. So he's the author of a new book called Mindful, Unwreck Your Head, De-Stress Your Life.
1:52.2	Dermott has recently done a lot of courses and qualifications to become a meditation teacher.
1:57.6	And he just really gets it and he demystifies it and he explains it in a way that makes it
2:01.9	very accessible, very approachable. There's a lot of humor in it with him as always and he just
2:08.4	makes a very convincing case here for making a little moment in your day, whether it's a couple of
2:15.0	seconds, whether it's a couple of minutes, whether it's a half
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