Episode Details

What does it look like when the person who teaches calm is the one having the panic attack?

I had no idea what this episode was going to be when I pressed record. I was sitting here anxious, stressed, feeling like the whole world was going wrong. I had stopped opening my emails. I was not even reading them, just bringing them up and looking away. The reason I help people with anxiety is that I have it. So here is me, on a bad day, being honest instead of pretending. Me and my carer Sasha have a mantra: things always work out, and if they do not, you are dead and you will not know.

One thing to try: When it hits, do one constructive thing, however small. It does not have to fix anything.

In this episode

• (1:39) I help with anxiety because I have it
• (2:48) Avoiding my emails without even opening them
• (5:26) You will think I am not like this. Today I am
• (6:33) How fast the mind jumps to we are going to die
• (7:56) Recording this has already made it better
• (9:21) Sasha and me, and our mantra
• (11:34) Nobody I know is free of it. It is what we do with the load

Support the podcast and join the Weekly Calm: stevenwebb.uk

Thank you for listening.

Steven

Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work.

• Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk
• Steven's courses, podcasts and links: stevenwebb.uk