The Big Feels Club
Graham Panther and Honor Eastly
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Oct 1, 2020
The Death of Ambition (Big Feels Club Podcast #012)
Feel like you’ve been working harder than ever this year, and still don’t know what all that hard work is adding up to? Why do we do this to ourselves? And what if you didn’t have to work so hard just to feel like a viable human?
Guest: Gareth Edwards
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and guests. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Aug 31, 2020
The hidden cost of asking for help (Big Feels Club Podcast #011)
All those helpful bus ads tell you to 'just ask for help' when you're struggling. But what if you've already asked for help, multiple times, and you still don't feel any better?
Here’s that Big Feels article I mentioned about the Long, Slow Twisting Shame Spiral.
Guest: Gareth Edwards
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Aug 19, 2020
An honest conversation about psych drugs (Big Feels Club Podcast #010)
Psych drugs. What if they don't work for you? or what if they kind of work but... it's complicated?
This ep: an honest conversation about medications. Including…
— How common it is to find the psych drugs don’t always help. (Even though no one tells you that.)
— Graham’s two wildly different attempts at taking psych drugs. Once, when they really helped, and once when they really didn’t.
— How to have more honest conversations about psych drugs
— Gareth’s reflections on experiencing compulsory treatment
Guest: Gareth Edwards
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Aug 10, 2020
Fear of being found out (Big Feels Club Podcast #009)
Feel like you’re just one dumb mistake away from ruining all your relationships forever?
How social distancing turns the volume up on that. Plus:
— what do you actually want from people when you’re having a hard time, especially right now?
— why you can’t always answer the dreaded question, ‘r.u.o.k.?’
— why it’s not always easy to do the things you know will make you feel better
— spending ages writing a single email
Guest: Amie Davis
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Jul 6, 2020
The dreaded P word... Productivity (Big Feels Club Podcast #008)
For many of us, 'being productive' is a key go-to strategy for feeling like a worthy human. So what happens at a time like this, when it's harder and harder to get things done?
Guest: Gareth Edwards.
Here’s that recent issue of the Big Feels Club newsletter on this same topic, the dreaded self-worth + productivity nexus: mailchi.mp/147cc6f8d647/productivity
And for more info on Big Feels @ Work - our audio resource for mental health workers with big feelings - go to https://bigfeels.club/big-feels-at-work
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Jun 10, 2020
Chronic fatigue + big feels (Big Feels Club Podcast #007)
“Every time I feel a bit better, I think that I’m faking it. And every time I feel shit, I just feel — shit.”
What do you do when you have a physical illness that defies modern science? The kind of illness that is clearly debilitating, but still makes you wonder, ‘is this all in my head?’ This ep: we talk chronic fatigue, nervous exhaustion, and what to do when you’re just really, really tired.
Guest: Gareth Edwards.
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Apr 15, 2020
Will isolation make me depressed? (Big Feels Club Podcast #006)
Staying indoors all day, avoiding people, sound familiar? When self-isolating feels like depression. (Plus, why most of the ‘lockdown self-care’ advice sucks.)
Guest: Amie Davis.
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Mar 31, 2020
Should I be reading the news? (Big Feels Club Podcast #005)
The panic / information spiral. Is all this pandemic news just making us feel like shit? Or is it too important to look away?
Plus, feeling totally over it. (Or are we just depressed?)
The big epic book Graham’s reading about the end of the world.
A good article Graham wrote about Pema Chödrön’s “pause” idea.
And the ‘good news’ source Honor mentioned: Future Crunch.
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Mar 23, 2020
Being (and Dating) a Germaphobe in a Pandemic (Big Feels Club Podcast #004)
What happens when you and your partner have different ideas about how to practice social distancing... from one another... when you share a bedroom.
What do you do when one of you has major health phobias, convinced every possible surface in the house needs disinfecting by the minute, and the other is a (relatively) more chill bean?
First of a few special pandemic pods for sensitive cats navigating these scary times.
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Feb 23, 2020
Coping mechanism? Or crutch?? (Big Feels Club Podcast #003)
We tackle some of our listeners’ big, existential questions.
Q1. How do you know the difference between a useful coping mechanism and a crutch?
Q2. Is the fact that I’m depressed even though my life is so privileged just another sign of how privileged I am?
With special guest, longtime feelings guru Gareth Edwards, author of The Procrastinator’s Guide to Killing Yourself.
The Big Feels Club is Graham Panther and Honor Eastly. Come join the club at bigfeels.club
Aug 25, 2018
What if trying to 'fix' myself makes me feel worse? (Book Club Chapter #002)
This ep is part of our 'book club for feelings'. Once a month we pick a topic and dive into the existential goo together. More info on how to join in the online and real-life discussion here: bigfeels.club/blog
Note: In this ep we talk about an episode of 'Invisibilia', which tackles this same topic. Find it here: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/483855073/the-problem-with-the-solution
Jul 20, 2018
Does everyone else find life this hard?? (Book Club Chapter #001)
In this ep, we and a bunch of other Big Feels Clubbers tackle the BIG QUESTIONS, like:
1. What's one thing you find harder than everybody else, because of your feelings?
2. How do you make sense of that, without just thinking 'I'm a loser'?
3. Where does your idea of normal come from anyway?
For bonus listening and further reading, head to bigfeels.club/blog
There’s more info on that page about how to join in our discussion on Facebook about this ep :)))