Episode-by-episode discussion of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith — a therapist's toolkit for low mood, anxiety and self-doubt, one tool at a time. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Mindset Podcasts.
8 episodes listed below. All 20 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
Criticism lands physically before it lands logically. We go through what disapproval does to you, how to tell useful feedback from noise, and how to stay standing in a conversation you would rather leave.
You do not get confident and then act. We cover Dr Julie's argument that confidence is the residue of having done the thing badly a few times, and what that means for anyone waiting to feel ready.
Shame collapses a mistake into an identity. We go through how to separate the two, and then the question underneath it all — what being enough would even look like, and who installed the standard you are failing.
Three chapters in one: what anxiety is, the habits that quietly amplify it, and what actually brings it down in the next ninety seconds. We cover the physiology, the avoidance trap, and the tools worth having before you need them.
The longest chapter in the book, on the anxious thought that will not leave. We go through what to do with it — not argue, not obey — and why trying to think your way out tends to dig the hole deeper.
Illness, ageing, death, loss. We cover the fear that has no solution, what Dr Julie says about living alongside it rather than resolving it, and why the attempt to never think about it costs more than facing it does.
Three chapters that reframe the whole subject. We go through how stress differs from anxiety, why removing all of it is neither possible nor desirable, and the specific point at which good stress tips over into the kind that damages you.
The practical half. We cover how to use stress as fuel rather than fighting it, and then what to do in the moment that genuinely matters — the interview, the conversation, the day you cannot reschedule.
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20 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: The Body Keeps the Score · No Bad Parts · Atlas of the Heart · Don't Believe Everything You Think · The Courage to Be Disliked · Stop Saying You're Fine
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