Anxiety Bites

Meditation is Portable

Jen talks to world renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg about why people are so resistant to being told to meditate. Sharon also breaks down the myth that meditation is about clearing your mind of thoughts - that wouldn't make any sense with her preferred practice, Mindfulness Meditaton.Sharon also tells her story of how meditaiton helps with her anxiety and her propensity towards catastrophic thinking.Sharon is a New York Times bestselling author of 11 books. Her latest is: "Real Change" available here: <a href="https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/realchange/">https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/realchange/</a>Listen to Sharon's podcast "The Metta Hour Podcast" here: <a href="https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/metta-hour-podcast/">https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/metta-hour-podcast/</a>Anxiety Bites is distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network and co-produced by Dylan Fagan and JJ Posway. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Comedian Jen Kirkman who has had life-long Panic and Generalized Anxiety Disorder brings her life-lessons, humor, and hope to a show that’s about normalizing having anxiety so that we go from whispering dramatically, “I have anxiety” to saying out loud with a shrug, “Yeah, I have anxiety.” Jen will interview experts with anxiety be they PhD’s, creatives, or spiritual gurus for advice on how to self-diagnose, begin to treat, and how to live easily with everyday anxiety and panic – and at the very least – giving an interesting, relatable, calming listen.