Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
This raw memoir detailed the author's struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, tracing his path from seeking a diagnosis to learning coping mechanisms, eventually turning to meditation. The author wrote it primarily to explain the feeling of panic attacks to those who had never experienced them.
Dan has written a book called Anxiety as an ally. How I turned a worried mind into my best friend.
— Episode: Dan Ryckert
Episode: Dan Ryckert
This raw memoir detailed the author's struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, tracing his path from seeking a diagnosis to learning coping mechanisms, eventually turning to meditation. The author wrote it primarily to explain the feeling of panic attacks to those who had never experienced them.
Dan has written a book called Anxiety as an ally. How I turned a worried mind into my best friend.
Yes and that is part of the reason I wanted to write that book is because while it is impossible to you know if you've never had a panic attack people tend to say like oh just chill out what are you worried about?
I wanted to describe that feeling you know what it was like when I had the first panic attack, what it was like going forward you know the book is not a how to and how to get better necessarily because I'm no expert whatsoever but I wanted to explain what it was like so if somebody had anxiety especially like you know guys that are my demographic gamers that there's not a lot of talk about stuff like this necessarily.
Episode: Dan Ryckert
This raw memoir detailed the author's struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, and how he eventually found help through meditation. The author wrote the book to explain what the feelings of anxiety and panic attacks were like for those who hadn't experienced them.
Dan has written a book called Anxiety as an ally. How I turned a worried mind into my best friend.
This is a really raw memoir of Dan struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, all of which I can relate to this really of course. And then he also talks about how meditation really helped.
I wanted to describe that feeling you know what it was like when I had the first panic attack, what it was like going forward you know the book is not a how to and how to get better necessarily because I'm no expert whatsoever but I wanted to explain what it was like so if somebody had anxiety especially like you know guys that are my demographic gamers that there's not a lot of talk about stuff like this necessarily.
I actually will totally looking to both of them when I get back in town because yeah even that little advice of you're trying too hard I think about that a lot even though that wasn't personally directed towards me in the way I meditate but I'll catch myself getting frustrated like it'll be you know 30 minutes into a session now we think I'm like man I've just been elsewhere mentally this entire time like and I don't think I'm wasting that 30 minutes but it's like I have I could have been doing so much better and I'll kind of beat myself up about it for the next 30 minutes but then I'll remind myself okay I'm thinking about this too much I'm trying to hard like just just sit here that's all you got to do here.