What happens when you share your vulnerability
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Front man of global music sensation Kodaline - Steve Garrigan. - shares his personal story with me. When you're the lead singer of a band performing in front of thousands of people, and feeling so at ease while doing so, it might sound odd that that same person would be gripped with panic attacks and anxiety behind the scenes. After years of suffering in silence, Steve has shared his experience of anxiety, how it manifested for him and what made him seek help - and also what actually helped - in his new book High Hopes, 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. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline |
| 0:28.6 | Forin. I'm so thrilled to say that my guest this week is Steve Garrigan, the frontman |
| 0:34.9 | with Codeline. I'm sure you will have heard of them. They are famous all around the world. |
| 0:38.3 | Their music has certainly soundtracked a lot of my formative experiences, big moments in my life. |
| 0:44.3 | Steve is such a lovely guy. He has recently come out with a book called High Hopes, which is also named after one of their best hits. |
| 0:52.3 | And it documents Steve's experience with anxiety that he has been |
| 0:55.9 | grappling with his whole life pretty much. And it really has at times taken over and really gotten |
| 1:03.0 | in the way of his life. So he very bravely shares his story in the hope of normalising it for other people. |
| 1:09.8 | And I think he's done just that. |
| 1:11.8 | It's a brilliant read. It's out now in book shops everywhere or online if you're listening |
| 1:17.1 | from abroad. And here in this episode we basically go back in time and talk about his experience |
| 1:22.7 | from the beginning right up to present day, the defining moments, the points he got to where he knew he had to make |
| 1:28.5 | a change, the things that have helped and how he looks after himself to this day. And I really, |
| 1:33.0 | really appreciate Steve being so candid with me and sharing everything with me. It's obviously |
| 1:37.0 | hard to hear people talk about having had such a hard time, but it makes you realise that |
| 1:41.2 | you're never alone in it yourself. And I think one of the characteristics |
| 1:44.7 | of anxiety is that you feel like you're the only person in the world. And clearly that's just not |
| 1:48.9 | the case. So I hope you get some comfort from Steve sharing his story. And as always, thank you for |
| 1:53.2 | the feedback, the reviews. I really appreciate it. And I'm very grateful to have you as a listener. |
| 2:04.1 | Steve Garrigan from Swords and from Codeline. |
| 2:07.2 | Thank you so much for joining me on owning it the Anxiety podcast. |
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