Tim Clare

Welcome episode 131 with Tim Clare who is a writer, a poet and a coward.

Tim Clare is a writer, a poet and a coward.

Tim has experienced anxiety and panic attacks for over a decade, sometimes having attacks several times a day.  These would often leave him curled up in a ball on the floor, screaming for help.

Eventually Tim got to a place where he could no longer go on living in fear and he made the decision to get control of his anxiety.

He set out to explore all of the common treatments, cures and support options and spent a year trialling and learning about things like exercise, hypnotherapy, medication, cold water, diet and psychedelics.

He researched science, looked at the studies, spoke to the experts and tried everything himself.  He wrote about all of this in his book, Coward: Why We Get Anxious and What We Can Do About it.

In this episode I chat to Tim about anxiety and what it feels like to have a panic attack.

We also chat about his yearlong experiment, some of the different things that he tried and what he learned about anxiety, and about himself, along the way.

It was great to chat to Tim about his book and everything that went in to it.  The amount of work he put into researching different aspects is incredible and I could have picked his brain for hours!

His book is great and if you want to know more about anxiety and about what can be done to potentially help, then I would highly recommend you give it a read after listening to this!

Episode 131 is out now in all the usual places!

Find out more about everything that Tim does here: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

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