Anxiety Bites

Aug 17 2022 47 ep. 60 mins 654
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Comedian Jen Kirkman who has had life-long Panic and Generalized Anxiety Disorder brings her life-lessons, humor, and hope to a show that’s about normalizing having anxiety so that we go from whispering dramatically, “I have anxiety” to saying out loud with a shrug, “Yeah, I have anxiety.” Jen will interview experts with anxiety be they PhD’s, creatives, or spiritual gurus for advice on how to self-diagnose, begin to treat, and how to live easily with everyday anxiety and panic – and at the very least – giving an interesting, relatable, calming listen.

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Why Has Nobody Told Me This?

Aug 17 2022 66 mins  
Jen talks to clinical psychologist, Dr. Julie Smith about her best-selling new book "Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?" It's the ultimate guide to life for anyone - anxious or not. Jen and Julie talk about self-esteem, making mistakes, motivation, forgiving ourselves, and how it's been for Julie to be such a public figure on her popular and informative Tik Tok account. For more i

More Thoughts On ADHD

Aug 10 2022 64 mins  
The episode about ADHD got a huge amount of feedback from people who felt like they identified. Jen is doing a solo episode to talk more about what she's learned this year about ADHD symptoms like talking too much, being reactive, hyperfocus, not going to bed on time, and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. For more information on Jen Kirkman, the host of Anxiety Bites, please go here

Anxiety In The Elderly

Aug 03 2022 55 mins  
Jen talks to Dr. Sharon Orrange, MD about how anxiety shows up in the elderly and what adult children can do about it without being bossy as well as how anxiety symptoms in the elderly are different than in younger adults. Dr. Sharon Orrange, MD specializes in Internal Medicine and is an Associate Professor in Medicine at Keck Medicine USC. To read Sharon's article about anxiety in

Big Feelings & Burnout

Jul 27 2022 69 mins  
Jen talks to Liz Fosslien co-author and illustrator of the national best-seller Big Feelings and the Wall Street Journal best-seller No Hard Feelings and an expert on how to make work better. Jen and Liz really drill down into what it means to "sit with uncertainty" and how to notice the early signs of Burnout. For more info on Liz Fosslien go here: https://www.fosslien.com For mor

The Amygdala

Jul 20 2022 68 mins  
Jen talks to acclaimed Professor of Neural Science, Joseph LeDoux about how memory shapes our emotions, the limitations of anxiety medication, why people are not getting it right when they call the amygdala the "fear center", and Joseph talks about his band The Amygdaloids. Joseph LeDoux has been working on the link between emotion, memory, and the brain since the 1990s. He's credi

Therapy For Gay Men

Jul 13 2022 68 mins  
Jen talks to psychiatrist Ken Howard - founder of Gay Therapy LA about his thirty years in working with gay men and their mental health. Ken talks about how to cope with "birthday anxiety", and he illuminates the different therapy approaches he uses with patients from working on trauma, or using a positive psychology coaching approach, or some good old fashioned cognitive behaviora

Invisible Storm of PTSD

Jul 06 2022 70 mins  
Jen talks to Jason Kander, President of the National Expansion at Veterans Community Project. Jason's new memoir is out now, "Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD." 100% of Jason's royalties from the book goes to fighten vetern suicide and homelessness through the Veterans Community Project. Get the book here: https://bookshop.org/books/invisible-storm-a-soldier

Regulate Yourself

Jun 29 2022 65 mins  
In the second part of the Vagus Nerve series, Jen talks to Deb Dana, LCSW, author & and one of the founders of the Polyvagal Institute about how everyone - even people without anxiety, need to learn how to regulate their nervous systems for better relationships in all area of life, what is polyvagal theory and how it plays into our daily life, and why certain people annoy us. F

VIva Las Vagus Nerve

Jun 22 2022 57 mins  
Jen talks to Dr. Navaz Habib about the importance of "activating" the Vagus Nerve to bring down anxiety, inflammation, brain fog, and more - and how most adults aren't breathing correctly. For more information about Dr. Habib's book, "Activate Your Vagus Nerve: Unleash Your Body's Natural Ability To Heal" go here: http://drhabib.ca/ayvn-book-page/ For more information on Jen Kirkma

The Life of Dr. Claire Weekes

Jun 15 2022 89 mins  
Jen talks to journalist and author, Judith Hoare, about her biography of panic attack pioneer Dr. Claire Weekes: "The Woman Who Cracked The Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Claire Weekes". For more information on Judith Hoare - go here: https://www.crackinganxiety.com/contact-judith and for more information on Dr. Claire Weekes go here: https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/