Owen O'Kane

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174 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball · 110: DIG IN: This Episode Could Change Your Life · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So again, it's teaching people.

I mean, literally what I'm saying here is you're teaching people to get out of their own way.

I think anxiety often brings a powerful message.

There's often an underlying message about something that we need to be doing.

We need to slow down.

We need to reevaluate.

We need to tweak things.

We need to look at ourselves differently.

We need to look at our lives differently.

So if you're willing to work with the kind of the gold that anxiety often brings in, not only is it useful, but actually it's teaching you something as well.

I mean, two of the most common behaviours

around managing anxiety or reassurance seeking and avoidance.

You know, they're the two things most people will do because they think, okay, well, if I avoid it, then I'm safe.

If I seek loads and loads and loads of reassurance, then I'll feel better.

But actually what we know is that it maintains the anxiety longer term.

So I guess one of the most powerful things you can do is like, say, for example, somebody was stuck at home and they can't get out or they don't want to go out.

What I would say is I'd encourage you to do the opposite.

I want you to go out today.

And even if that means that you literally walk around the block, I'm not saying that you do something massive that's going to flood you, but what I want you to do is I want you to go towards the discomfort.

And I want you to do the opposite of what your anxiety is telling you to do, even if it's a small step, because then what you do is you work against the pattern.

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