Scarlett Curtis shares her anxiety story

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Owning It, this time my guest is not an expert but a very wonderful and prolific writer - Scarlett Curtis - who shares her experience of anxiety and depression with me. Scarlett is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies and It's Not Okay To Feel Blue and Other Lies, and daughter of Richard Curtis, who has made some films you may know, including Love Actually. She says she's always felt like a bit of a sad cloud hanging over her otherwise happy family, due to her chronic illness and bouts of depression and anxiety. Here she shares her story. We also talk about the commodification of self care, how the pressure to have a 'solution' is helping nobody, and lots more. Read more of her work on ScarlettCurtis.com. Follow me on @OwningItPodcast on Instagram for more.

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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.
0:29.3	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin, my guest this week, Scarlet Curtis, probably one of, if not the most I've ever enjoyed
0:37.4	recording a podcast.
0:39.1	Scarlett Curtis, for those who don't know, what have you been doing with your life?
0:42.8	She is a curator of the Sunday Times Bestseller and National Book Award-winning.
0:46.1	Feminists don't wear pink and other lies.
0:48.4	And the book, It's Not Okay to Feel Blue and Other Lies, published by Penguin.
0:52.4	She's also the daughter of Richard Curtis who made
0:55.1	Love Actually. She's actually in Love Actually. She was the second lobster. We have an amazing chat here
0:59.5	about mental health, well-being, her experience of anxiety and depression, how she differentiates
1:04.5	the two. We talk about the commoditization of self-care, society, cultural, stigmas, so many things.
1:12.7	I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to her and I learned a lot from Scarlett and she just articulates things in such a brilliant way. So I hope
1:17.0	you find it as good as I did and as helpful and as reassuring if you're someone who's struggling right
1:21.6	now, it's okay to not be okay. It's okay to feel blue.
1:35.2	Scarlett Curtis, it is such an honour to have you as a guest on owning it, the Anxiety podcast.
1:35.9	I'm so happy to be here.
1:37.8	It is genuinely my favourite topic to talk about.
1:41.2	You can tell that you're so open and honest and it really seems to be like quite a radical
1:45.8	thing on social media and it's, I think it's so needed. Yeah, it's so needed. And I think,
1:51.3	you know, it's helped me, like I have no idea if it's helped anyone else, but it's helped me so much,
1:57.7	just kind of overcoming the shame that I felt about so much of this because there still is so much, just kind of overcoming the shame that I felt about so much of this, because there's
2:03.6	still is so much shame around it. You know, we're making huge amounts of progress. But yeah,
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