Sara Bareilles: Anxiety, Anger, and Art (2021)
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're posting some of our best podcasts from the archives on a dragon many of us face internally – anxiety. The first episode of the series features Sara Bareilles.
Sara Bareilles is a singer, songwriter, composer, and actor who earned Tony and Grammy Award nominations for her Broadway musical Waitress. She also stars in the show Girls5eva, which is back for a second season this year on Peacock.
Behind all of Sara's artistic and professional successes, there is a meditator who is fearlessly open and public about her struggles with anxiety and depression. In this conversation, she talks about: her history of anxiety and depression; the relationship between suffering and art; whether meditation might defang somebody's creativity; how she works with anger; and her relationship with social media. She'll also share some of the backstories behind some of her hit songs.
Just a note: This episode is a rerun from June 2021. There are some references that might seem a little out of date, but the content remains relevant.
Content Warning: This conversation features an exploration of depression and anxiety with one very brief mention of self-harm.
We're re-launching our ten-day meditation challenge, called the Taming Anxiety Challenge, over on the Ten Percent Happier app. To join the Challenge, just download the Ten Percent Happier app today wherever you get your apps or by visiting tenpercent.com. If you already have the app, just open it up and follow the instructions to join!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.2 | This week we're posting some of our best podcasts from the archives on a dragon many of us face |
| 0:18.7 | internally anxiety. |
| 0:21.8 | Anxiety to state. |
| 0:22.8 | The obvious is a massive issue in our society. |
| 0:25.0 | Even before the pandemic, it was on the rise and now the situation is sadly even worse. |
| 0:30.8 | Chances are it has afflicted you or somebody you love at some point and on some level. |
| 0:36.0 | Maybe you've received an actual diagnosis, like generalized anxiety disorder, or maybe |
| 0:40.4 | your prone to symptoms closer to panic as I've been known to experience, or perhaps you're |
| 0:44.8 | just susceptible to a bit too much garden variety worry. |
| 0:49.4 | The bad news is that anxiety is unlikely to disappear overnight, but the good news is |
| 0:54.0 | that you can change your relationship to it. |
| 0:57.9 | That's what we're going to discuss on our episodes this week. |
| 1:01.3 | We're kicking things off with a personal story from Sarah Barellis, a fearsome polymath. |
| 1:07.6 | She's a singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. |
| 1:10.1 | The list goes on. |
| 1:11.3 | She's earned Tony and Grammy Award nominations for the Broadway musical Waitress. |
| 1:15.2 | She stars in the very funny Tina Fey produced show Girls 5 Eva, which we'll be back for |
| 1:20.8 | a second season this year on Peacock. |
| 1:22.8 | I highly recommend that show. |
| 1:24.2 | It's very funny and she's very funny in it. |
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