Episodes

  • Pt 3: How to Accept Anxiety and Feel Ten Times Calmer | Dr Kirren
    May 21 2025

    In part 3, Dr Kirren reveals why you need to stop over-focusing on your anxious thoughts and shares her top three tips for living alongside anxiety.


    Plus, Kirren and Dr Alex George discuss the difficulty of being a perfectionist and why you should never Google your symptoms if you’ve got a history of health anxiety…


    Follow @drkirren and get her book ‘Ten Times Calmer: Beat Anxiety and Change Your Life’


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    25 mins
  • Pt 2: The 5 Golden Rules for Managing Health Anxiety | Dr Kirren
    May 20 2025

    In part 2, Dr Kirren unpacks the topic of health anxiety, how it’s connected to death anxiety and shares her golden rules for managing health anxiety.


    Plus, Kirren and Dr Alex George discuss their experiences of EMDR therapy and how living life according to your values can help alleviate feelings of death anxiety…


    Follow @drkirren and get her book ‘Ten Times Calmer: Beat Anxiety and Change Your Life’


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    27 mins
  • Pt 1: Why Anxiety Feels So Physical and What to Do About It | Dr Kirren
    May 19 2025

    Dr Kirren is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience, and has built an online following of over 600k through her helpful videos about living with anxiety.


    Many of us suffer from anxiety, so why do we rarely talk about the frightening symptoms of anxiety?


    In part 1, Kirren joins Dr Alex George to discuss the many different ways anxiety may present itself physically, the importance of accepting anxious thoughts and why it’s essential to make friends with uncertainty.


    Plus, Kirren shares some tips for managing the physical symptoms of anxiety and reveals why anxiety levels have risen drastically since the pandemic…


    Follow @drkirren and get her book ‘Ten Times Calmer: Beat Anxiety and Change Your Life’


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    30 mins
  • Pt 3: Try These 6 Things For Optimum Hormonal Health | Hannah Alderson
    May 14 2025

    In part three, Hannah Alderson reveals the six steps to rebalancing your hormones and how your diet has a bigger impact on your hormonal health than you might think…


    Plus, Hannah and Dr Alex George unpack the role movement can have on our hormones and how practicing daily gratitude can improve both your hormone health and mental wellbeing.


    Follow @hannahaldersonnutrition and get her book ‘Everything I Know About Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness’.


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    32 mins
  • Pt 2: Why ‘Being Hormonal’ Is Actually a Good Thing! | Hannah Alderson
    May 13 2025

    In part two, Hannah Alderson unpacks why more women are speaking up about their hormone health than ever before, the key roles cortisol and insulin play in our daily lives and why ‘being hormonal’ is actually a good thing.


    Plus, Hannah and Dr Alex George discuss why the 24 hour cycle is the most important in hormonal health and why your hormones are only ever as good as the clues you give them…


    Follow @hannahaldersonnutrition and get her book ‘Everything I Know About Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness’.


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    30 mins
  • Pt 1: Why Your Hormones Aren’t Made For the Modern World | Hannah Alderson
    May 12 2025

    Hannah Alderson is a nutritionist and hormone expert, who recently released her debut book ‘Everything I Know About Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness’.


    Hormones are vital for our daily functioning and can be a great indicator for our overall health - so why do so many of us know so little about them?


    In part one, Hannah joins Dr Alex George to unpack our key hormones and their functions, the different factors that can impact our hormone function and why our hormones haven’t adapted to our modern world…


    Plus, Hannah discusses the differences between synthetic and natural hormones and reveals why (perhaps unfairly) cortisol has such a bad reputation.


    Follow @hannahaldersonnutrition and get her book ‘Everything I Know About Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness’.


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    36 mins
  • Pt 3: How to Make (and Keep) Better Friendships | Michelle Elman
    May 7 2025

    In part 3, Michelle Elman gives some helpful advice for making new friends and maintaining old ones.


    Plus, Michelle and Dr Alex George reflect on the different roles you play in different friendships and why it’s so important to be grateful for the friendships you do have.


    Follow @michellelelman and get her book ‘Bad Friend: Why Friendship Breakups Hurt and How to Heal’, coming 8th May, published by Renegade Books.


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


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    21 mins
  • Pt 2: Why You Have to Grieve Lost Friendships | Michelle Elman
    May 6 2025

    In part 2, Michelle Elman and Dr Alex George discuss how to heal from a friendship breakup, the importance of recognising grief when a friendship ends and why ambivalent friends can be more damaging than bad friends…


    Plus, Michelle talks about how to recognise if you’re being a bad friend and how you can’t have good boundaries without good communication.


    Follow @michellelelman and get her book ‘Bad Friend: Why Friendship Breakups Hurt and How to Heal’, coming 8th May, published by Renegade Books.


    Follow the podcast on Instagram @thestompcast


    Get the new, pocket guide version of The Mind Manual now


    Download Mettle: the mental fitness app for men

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    33 mins