In this weeks episode Anniki talks about overwhelm and how women often feel under
pressure to be productive and busy. It’s sometimes rare that we just sit down and stare at a
wall for ten minutes. We’re often reading profiles of successful women – business leaders
and actresses who get up super early to squeeze as much as possible into each days. Being
busy is celebrated and we’re made to feel like a flop if we haven’t done very much. Social
media amplifies this sense that we’ll fall behind unless we keep hustling and developing.
Perhaps one of the positive things that has come out of lockdown, is the fact that we’ve had
to stop rushing about for a while and are thinking more about what our priorities are and
whether being busy all the time is really a positive thing. Anniki talks to Hilda Burke – a
psychotherapist who has written a workbook on phone addiction and gives advice on how
to break unhelpful patterns of behaviour, how to cope with overwhelm, the culture of
comparison and the stress that we’re not good enough.
Resources for support:
Buy Hilda Burke’s book- The Phone Addiction Workbook:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phone-Addiction-Workbook-Smartphone -
Relationship/dp/1612439039/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=100975742133&dchild=1&hvadid=43559
6429220&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045940&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=2450546136733520
997&hvtargid=kwd-296280425694&hydhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/
Try meditation/re-focusing apps such as:
Clementine: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/clementine/id1310736764
Calm: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm/id571800810
For more meditations and talks try Tara Brach on:
https://www.tarabrach.com
Produced and Edited by Alex Graham
Music by Paul Wells
