Comedian, bestselling author and host of the No Fun podcast Jen Kirkman has launched the new Anxiety Bites podcast to share life-lessons, humor and hope surrounding the topic of anxiety. The podcast launched on iHeartRadio on Oct. 6 and can be found everywhere podcasts are heard.
Episode one features a conversation between Kirkman and NY Times Bestselling Author, MD, PhD, Dr. Jud Brewer during which they discuss “how our fingers can help us during a panic attack, sometimes neuroscience puts out the fire of anxiety better than therapy, and why the hell haven’t our brains evolved beyond thinking we’re in danger when we’re not?”
“I’m trying to bring attention to, normalize, and help people by talking about in an honest and even fun way all the types of anxiety – social, political, identity-related, agoraphobia, panic attacks, and situational anxiety, by having conversations with all kinds of experts from neuroscientists and psychiatrists to authors and artists,” said Kirkman in a statement.
Kirkman has Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and a former phobia of flying. During the lockdown of 2020 Kirkman shared her own experiences with anxiety along with tips and techniques for dealing with anxiety in an email to fans who asked for the information. She also taught relaxation classes on Zoom, using tactics she learned for her own anxiety, which helped lead to the creation of Anxiety Bites.
Anxiety Bites is distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network and co-produced by Dylan Fagan. New episodes premiere on Wednesday every week.
Click here to listen to Anxiety Bites on Spotify and head over to jenkirkman.com for more information. Tickets for Kirkman’s upcoming shows at Union Hall in Brooklyn, Dec 1 – 4, are on sale now via Eventbrite.