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

It was never meant to be completely predictable.

No one said that it was going to be perfect and that everything was going to go well.

So actually it is that, okay, I wonder, can I just,

work with what is at the moment and that can be enough and whatever comes next and I don't know what that looks like I'll manage that when it comes so it's just kind of learning that you know that great analogy there's a brilliant analogy actually it's just come into my mind you know when you watch somebody who throws a brick or a stone or something into your lake

and you will immediately get ripples in the lake, okay?

And those ripples will, they'll settle down eventually.

Now what most people try to do in life is when they're going through a crisis or a big moment or their anxiety has swept in, what they try and do is if you think of the lake and the ripples, most people jump in and try and stop the ripples.

happening.

And of course the opposite happens, you know, it's like we create chaos.

So it is that, you know, it's really learning.

And this is where the anxious brain and anxiety management get into conflict because the anxious brain is all about solution.

The anxious brain is all about getting answers.

The anxious brain is all about getting outcomes where actually the real essence of this work is about actually being steady and being able to be around what is

It's never about getting the immediate solution or getting the immediate answer.

So often what we're doing is we're acknowledging that the brain is automatically going for fixing the solution or finding a solution, whereas actually sometimes the real power is found in that place of steadiness, that place of stability.

So I wonder what it's like to just work with life as it is without feeling the need to jump into the lake and control the ripples.

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball · 97: DIG IN: Understanding Anxiety with Owen O'Kane · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I started to have panic attacks.

I think it was from grief.

Yeah.

And then I started to have crippling anxiety to the point where I was struggling to work.

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