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The no bull podcast about all things anxiety, depression & other cheerful topics.
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1Welcome to Angus Eye Tea! The podcast about...ANXIETY (and all other sorts of nonsense). Today, we embark on a new chapter in our lives as I start this podcast and you listen to it. Sure, I've done more of the heavy lifting here, but I'll share my triumph with you. It took forever to reach this point of uploading the first episode. Want to know why? Because ANXIETY. So let's b*tch about how anxious new starts make us, but also how thrilling and wild they can be.
I recently made myself get a gym membership. Why? Because I am a gym sloth and would like to be more like a gym rat (though the sloth is more fun and less gross tbh). And secretly why? It's the best "quick fix" I have to my anxiety and depression. Ironically enough, those two tend to thwart my every move at the gym. Like, I know everyone is looking at me. They are ALL looking at ME and I am red in the face and SWEATING. I sweat like I'm my own water park. Hence why I usually avoid such scenarios and instead eat my feelings via a spoon and a jar of Nutella. Until this time. Listen to my crack at getting back into a workout regime, my first time at a spin class, and how exercise balls are the Devil's balloons and need to gtfo.
It's the little things that eat away at you over time - someone's loud gum chewing, the newsletter you've unsubscribed from three times now, your existence, etc. Sometimes, the cards seem stacked against us and a normal day seems impossible to get through. In today's episode, I go into some of my methods for dealing with the daily grind(ing away at my soul). Also, a fun message from Future Elaine!
Hello, friends! Today, I sit down with my friend Kameron (well, we crashed on the floor, technically) as we talk about how our superstitions both fuel and calm our anxieties. Fern also makes her first active debut in the podcast and tries to ruin everything.
Hey, Heifers! Today, we’re going to dive into post-travel depression - a.k.a. that down feeling you get when you come back from a vacation, trek, quest, the grocery store, etc. Life can feel like oatmeal when you return to your daily routine when a week ago, you were eating bread in a foreign country. And carbs always taste better when they are 10,000 miles away from your home-town bread. Nibbling on your sad, pathetic slices now makes you even more depressed. Will you ever eat good bread again? Is your life now doomed to bland bread? I go through my MANY experiences with post-travel depression, and what has helped me most to climb out of that hole.
It was only time. This is a mental health podcast, after all. By the Laws That Be, I had to make an episode giving meditation a serious go. Hear about how many people barged in on me trying to find my zen, as well as my crazy and most likely delusional plan I made for my month where each weekend I had to go on some sort of adventure. Spoiler alert: anxiety levels increased by 10 million.
Hey, Heifers! Today, I pretend like I know how to take care of myself so that I can tell YOU how to take care of YOURSELF. Smart, eh? Some self-care is hella easy, like drawing a bath or smelling a bunch of roses. Other self-care is hella difficult, like cutting out toxic people in your life and not eating potato chips for dinner. I dive into the many facets of this wondrous treat-yo-self philosophy and find out if truly, once and for all, lavender essential oil is the CURE to all anxiety and depression.
Solo-travel. Depression. Fecal matter. August was one hell of a month, my Heifers, and I’ve survived to tell the tale. As you may have heard, I challenged myself to go on an “adventure” every weekend in the month of August. Since I have issues with being a perfectionist - the issue being that I am SO VERY FAR from achieving perfection - I knew that I had to go big for my last journey. So, I went on a trip by myself for the first time. And it was a weird time. Also, hey, I’m depressed! Ain’t that the bees’ knees? You’ll get to hear how that fun adventure is going, too.
In honor of PSL season, my Heifers, today we dive into the dark beauty of coffee. Caffeine can supremely ruin your day if you have anxiety or depression. It can also make it amazing. It can also make you have a panic attack. How grande! I tell you my pitfalls with caffeine and the tips that have helped me in the quest to find a way to be awake without having to get more sleep and, you know, break out into hysterical sobbing. Please feel free to leave a review or a comment! <3
Hey, Heifers! Today, I blab at you all about not feeling enough and why that’s such BS. I mean, easier said than believed, but it is. Hope you enjoy naked mole rats and long tangents!
Hey, Heifers! Therapy is so great, but finding a therapist can be daunting. This is a tale of one of the therapists I tried out. This is also the tale of how bad off I was in 2016, or maybe it was 2017 - I never really seem to figure out what year of my life I’m talking about - and why having such a turd of a therapist was so hilariously ironic. It just makes you want to CRY. With LAUGHTER not sadness ha ah ha we’re all laughing IT’S FINE.
HEY HEIFERS. Taylor and I go way back to ye olde days of college. The cool thing about Taylor is that he comes from a SMALLL town in South Carolina - had the courage to go to a college where he knew NO ONE, and then BUSTED OUT of the South to go to the mega city of Boston! He seemed like the perfect person to have on the pod to talk about what it’s like to uproot yourself in so many ways, and how we have personally dealt with our mental health when we take on these adventures.
Hey, Heifers! November means National Writing Month, no shaving, voting, and hell, let’s throw some arson in there for fun as well. Today, we’re gonna have a sit down chat about perfectionism. Ah, the art of not being able to let something go until it is JUST right! Perfectionism can easily be masked as a great trait, but it can greatly hinder you if you let it rule your life. I talk about my personal experience with perfectionism ruining my life (lol) and how NaNoWriMo helps me break out of that cycle. PLEASE give us a rating on wherever you’re listening to this! It helps other folks find this podcast so we can grow the herd and our mutual mental heath weirdness. :)
L O L Heifers, I’m not even sure how I managed to get this together, but here it is! Basically, everything in my life kinda did a 180 and I had to run to catch up while I was already wearing ankle weights (love a confusing metaphor!). And then I realize that I’ve lived in my new place for a whole year which I haven’t done since 2012. two. THOUSAND. TWELVEEEE. Anyway, enjoy this snack and please feel free to let me know what kinda stuff you want to hear on the next pod! @AngusEyeTea on Twitter & Insta and www.anguseyetea.com is the website. ENJOY.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, HEIFERS. In honor of thanks or whatever BS, I decided to pull out my old af gratitude journal I tried to keep. Queue depressing lists of things I thought were great but were really just me being whiny and wanting Nutella and pizza. The moral of the story is make sure you’re actually TRYING to be grateful when you make a gratitude list. Now go eat some turkey/tofurkey and learn sh*t about your uncle you never wanted to know.
Hey, Heifers! Oops, I’m a day late. Don’t you love that? NaNoWriMo is killing me right now, so I focused on that instead. And I’m still behind so that def worked out. Enjoy this episode of goal setting and all sorts of nonsense!
Change is afoot, Heifers! Get pumped.
Why plan out your year when you can have Fate tell you? Listen to my 2019 readings go from mediocre to a dumpster fire. Wanna see if these predictions come true? Subscribe! Ha, yeah. Yeah, I did that. Make sure to check out our website, www.anguseyetea.comfor Episode Notes!
It's that weird stress you get before each Monday comes - the fear and horror of having to return to your work/school life. Responsibilities whisper to you in the shadows, and you can no longer hide from them. How do you even begin to cope with such horrors? Check out the Episode Notes that will go live soon here & be sure to follow us on Insta/Twitter @AngusEyeTea!
Hey, Heifers! It's a new month, and that means I need to try to make myself into an entirely new and better person in 28 days. Sounds doable! I actually attempt to set three main goals for this month that will make my life better - I just don't want to do them. At all. Check out the Episode Notes that will go live here! What will you tackle this month?
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