You, Me, Empathy: Sharing Our Mental Health Stories

On Episode 123 of You, Me, Empathy, it’s a special bonus episode where I sit down with three therapists to discuss empathy, anxiety, spirituality, self-care, eating disorder recovery, and mental health in the time of this current global pandemic: Coronavirus, or COVID-19. First up, I chat with Sydni Marmor. Sydni and I explore self-development, self-love, self-compassion, and looking at life as a playground as opposed to how we’re not doing things “right or wrong.” We talk about mistakes as mini adventures, the kindness pandemic, being empathetic to the people who are panic buying, and how we can use this time to cultivate change with empathy rather than through anger. Next I chat with Becky (or BeX) Kagan. BeX and I explore being a highly sensitive person during this time, how being strong doesn’t mean being without emotion, sitting with our feelings, activities that help us get our feelings and anxieties out of our bodies, control, FFTs (F*@cking First Times), radical acceptance, paying attention to the