How To Be Sad with Helen Russell Season 3 #5 Dr Julie Smith
Oct 13, 2021
45:08
Today’s guest has 2.8M Followers on TikTok, 420 thousand on Instagram and 30.5M Likes but she’s not your typical social media influencer. Dr Julie Smith is the first mental health professional to start using TikTok as a platform for therapy. She’s the clinical psychologist and former NHS staffer who now works as an online educator - and her daily posts have become a lifeline for many during the pandemic.
She says now: “while there are lots of ways to reduce the intensity of anxiety, you must be willing to experience it. When you can’t stop fear, take it with you. That thing you want to do? Do it scared. Because, she says: The things you do the most become your comfort zone.”
Here, we talk about:
- how to cope with anxiety and ‘keep standing’ in the waves
- why therapy should be accessible to all (and funny!)
- the four signs of loneliness and what to do about them
- busting therapy jargon (from CBT to ACT, SFBT, Motivational Interviewing and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)
- what we can do now to be sad, well