John Robins

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2,358 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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How Do You Cope? · Kelsey Waghorn: 'There’s nothing quite like someone telling you, "you are normal"' · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And your brain, if your brain is going, shut up, body, I'm not, that can almost be another stress of, why won't my body do the thing I want it to do?

Whereas breathing is like it's treating the body and not the brain.

Is that right?

So when you say you start at the bottom, is that imagining or feeling the sensation of breath, like filling you up from the bottom of your lungs and then expanding and expanding to the top?

You were talking about how frustrating it is when you're in pain and someone is saying, like, breathe through it.

Yeah!

But also it's just wild that, like, the cure, in adverted commas, for so much of your distress and trauma is something you've been doing automatically since the day you were born.

I know.

It's, like, amazing.

Yeah.

Well, I guess, yeah, because your breathing can also get you into trouble.

It can bring on panic and stress and anger and all those things if it's, like you're saying, very tight and very high and very quick.

I'm aware we've taken up a lot of your time.

I just wanted to end on this quote from the book.

You can't be afraid if you're curious.

Yes.

I think that is like an amazing thing to, I don't know whether Sam told you that or that's something you learned because it suggests, I guess, almost like a Buddhist view of if you're curious by nature, you are observing yourself.

So you're not necessarily quite identifying with everything you're going through?

Yeah.

Is that what that quote means to you?

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