The Importance of Wintering

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Angela Barnes: I think most like 80% of criticism that comes towards you is that it's like this isn't to my taste. "I get kind of angry right wing middle-aged men shouting at me on twitter or what if I'm saying you just want everybody to be weak and then you actually say calm down a little bit," she says. She will release new dates from her writing courses soon as well as some brand new online workshops for people who want to explore the concept of wintering a little more. If you'd like to be the first to know go to catherine-may.com forward slash newsletters and click the link that's right for you.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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