Learning How To Live
A podcast for curious minds eager to step off the treadmill, dig deep and discover how to live well. Conversations about what happens on the inside and how it affects us on the outside.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
Series 2, episode 5. Relapse and Recovery
An episode about that moment when you seem to be getting better and then suddenly have a bad day, or bad week. Following my story of recovery from anxiety and in this case discussing my relapse a few…
Series 2, episode 4: I'm struggling with anxiety, what should I do?
In this episode I look at the many varying ways I learnt to calm my anxiety. Some of these are small physical and practical changes, some were skills I learnt, others still were difficult relational …
Series 2, episode 3: The mindsets that can make you ill.
In this episode I look at the unhelpful mindsets I was stuck in during my 20s (and if I am not careful mindsets I can still slip into today). These deeply held, but never properly acknowledged belief…
Series 2, episode 2: What happens when you are diagnosed with depression and anxiety.
In this episode I discuss my mental health diagnosis (initially with Post-Natal Depression and then with Generalised Anxiety Disorder.) Being diagnosed with a strange experience, it changes nothing a…
Part 1: Recognising you are suffering with anxiety.
A deep dive into why it can be so hard to realise you are struggling with your mental health. I talk about my 20s, the unrealistic expectations and circumstances that surrounded my eventual diagnosis…
Episode 8: Speaking to your inner critic.
I can be my own worst and most harsh critic.
My inner critic is loud and persistent, telling me all the ways I am not enough: not good enough, don't work hard enough, not consistent enough.
I have …
Episode 7: Uncovering the World of Measurement.
In this episode I take a long hard look at the World of Measurement.
Not sure what that is?
It is the world most of us live in nearly all the time.
A world where we compare and quantify, chart academ…
Episode 6: What we've learnt about authenticity, creativity and diagnosis (with the Positive Planners)
This might just be my favourite podcast episode so far.
A couple of weeks back I travelled to Bath to attend the launch of the Positive Wellness Journal, the new book from the Positive Planners.
For…
Episode 5: The truth about capacity or Discovering Your* Enough (*not a spelling mistake).
This episode explores why it is vital to know the limits of your capacity.
I didn't know how much I was able to do. I tried to do it all. I pushed hard and kept going when I should have stopped. It d…
Episode 4: Emotional Articulacy and Anxiety
Episode four is an interview with Phil Watson. A conversation about finding the words to talk about how we are feeling and the limits of language when it comes to discussing mental health.
I have kno…
Episode 3: Your creative practice matters.
Why is it important to have a creative practice? What might stop you developing one?
During my early 30s when I was suffering with post natal depression and anxiety I stopped thinking of myself as a …
Episode 2: Don't start with self-care
Does the idea of self-care make you feel icky or entitled or indulgent? Me too.
And yet I have needed to learn to care for myself. Self-care isn't a nice optional extra, it is essential. But I have l…
Episode 1: Be A Beginner
I am a beginner. This is my first episode. It isn't easy to be a beginner and there seem to be so many reasons not to start. What if I fail? What if I don't know how? What if it feels too difficult? …