The Anxiety Files, Vol. 2: A Tiny Crunch of Fear

An Over-Cluttered Life: Stuff, things, objects, physical belongings. We need them to live our lives, but they can feel like SUCH a burden! Martha and Ro examine our collective desire to accumulate stuff, which conflicts with our instinct to feel wild, unfettered, and free. by Bewildered

40 min listen

Getting Back on the Horse: Returning to activities that we’ve temporarily abandoned—due to, say, a global pandemic—brings a whole slew of challenges. Do we do things how we used to, even though we’ve changed fundamentally as people? If not, how can we approach our old work, by Bewildered

62 min listen

The Courage to Rest: How do we justify resting in a world that wants us in constant motion? Martha and Ro address this question with compassion and irreverence, digging into the cultural context of human exhaustion. They explain that we work our fingers to the bone because... by Bewildered

33 min listen

When They Don’t Get You: In this episode, Ro and Martha talk about a disheartening phenomenon that can happen when you bring your truest truth into the world. Instead of positive or negative feedback, some people just won’t get you. This non-response is weirdly hard, by Bewildered

61 min listen

Self-Doubt and Creativity: In this episode, Martha and Ro dive into an eternal creative conundrum: how to manage inner criticism. They explore ways to quiet the voice of your destructive inner critic, making way for the discerning inner critic who can improve your work. by Bewildered

34 min listen

Sleep For Your Life: Sleep: it’s not just for wimps and sissies. - Until Martha and Ro dug into the topic of this podcast—the innocent little universal need for SLEEP—they didn't realize how much of a cultural minefield sleep is. There is SO MUCH sleep-shaming going on. by Bewildered

72 min listen

On Top of Things?: Has anyone ever told you that a particular life-changing app or journaling technique will help you get a handle on everything in your life? If so, Martha and Ro would like to inform you that they were LYING! Life is overwhelming, by Bewildered

54 min listen

Perfection Paralysis: Do you strive for perfection? Or does the need to be perfect prevent you from striving? - We all have some kind of beauty or wisdom inside of us, but “perfection paralysis” often stops us from sharing it. In this episode of Bewildered, by Bewildered

39 min listen

Unshamable: Shame. It’s a powerful tool for socialization and the strategy culture uses to keep us in its little box. In this episode of Bewildered, Marty and Ro dissect the ways we can be shamed and how we can move away from that into what feels true for ourselve... by Bewildered

55 min listen

Comparing Lives: Adulting is hard. So why is everyone on social media doing it SO MUCH BETTER than we are? In this funny and heartfelt episode, Martha and Ro unpack the comparison trap and remind us to define ourselves by ourselves. by Bewildered

42 min listen

Brave Enough to be Weird: When a listener reports that this podcast allows her to “be more eccentrically myself," Martha and Ro dive into the topic of individual nonconformity. Going out into the world as your full and genuine self, how can you be brave enough to be weird? by Bewildered

64 min listen

Bewildered Trailer: A podcast for people who are trying to figure it out. Join Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan for help figuring out everyday conundrums. If you’re bewildered, join us! by Bewildered

1 min listen

Always Growing Up: Many of us buy into the cultural idea that there is only one way to parent, and if we do it correctly, things will turn out okay, and everyone will approve of us. But when grown children leave home, parents don't get to keep the identity they held for ... by Bewildered

52 min listen

Are You a Messy?: A gracious German author once asked Martha if she was “a messy” after seeing the disorderly state of her hotel room. (She’d been frantically searching through her luggage moments before.) - But is being "a messy" a permanent label that defines us? by Bewildered

50 min listen

More Than Five Senses: Martha and Ro reveal that they’ve both had “coming out” moments as mystics: people who seek to commune with, unite with, and understand “the mystery.” Both have had many inexplicable experiences, and they sustain a willing suspension of disbelief about... by Bewildered

63 min listen

The Happiness Imperative: In the very first episode of the BEWILDERED podcast, Martha and Ro unpack the importance of embracing our WILDNESS. Now, running naked through the woods has its charms, but wildness takes many forms, including mindful rebellion against conformity. by Bewildered

48 min listen

Ghosting the Argument (Empty Boats): In this episode Martha and Ro talk about the “ultimate spiritual lifehack” for dealing with other human beings. Conflict is everywhere, and you can’t win enough arguments to ever escape the culture of argument itself. by Bewildered

48 min listen

Toothpicks, Dinosaurs, and Snakebites: They’re back! Martha and Ro are bringing you another installment of The BeWild Files where they talk about the things that YOU, their listeners, are trying to figure out. - In this episode, Martha and Ro answer questions about how to make money with i... by Bewildered

52 min listen

As Good As It Gets?: Why is it that sometimes when life looks most amazing, it often feels so…meh? Martha and Ro dig into the difference between a life that’s prescribed by culture, and one that we invent from our inner wild selves. by Bewildered

53 min listen

Ten Thousand Spoons: Some of us have plenty of energy to meet every cultural demand, but most of us have less. Enter Spoon Theory, Christine Miserandino’s brilliant analogy in which every action we take costs us a unit of energy represented by a spoon. by Bewildered

55 min listen

Rings, Ducks and Earbuds: You spoke, and Marty & Ro listened: they’re pioneering a new type of episode featuring things that YOU, their listeners, are trying to figure out. Introducing…The BeWild Files. - In this episode (which contains more factoids than you probably care to ... by Bewildered

48 min listen

Letting Yourself Off the Hook: Every culture has what Martha and Ro refer to as “hooks”—powerful influences that compel us to behave a certain way and that even shape our identity. How much we buy into the culture determines the extent to which we become stuck on these hooks. - by Bewildered

28 min listen

Creative Contrarians: Back by popular demand! In this episode, Marty and Ro deliver another installment of The BeWild Files where they talk about the things that you, their listeners, are trying to figure out. - Marty & Ro discuss the importance of contrarians and counterc... by Bewildered

51 min listen

Wild Energy by Bewildered

49 min listen

Outfoxing Anxiety: Did you know anxiety disorders have risen 400% since the pandemic? - (And that's just the diagnosed cases.) - The cultural idea is that we're victims of our chemistry. But when it comes to anxiety, we have a lot more choices than we might think. - by Bewildered

53 min listen

Scary Scary Freedom: Freedom. Many of us value it above everything else—so why does it sometimes feel so terrifying? - In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Rowan talk about how the culture teaches us to fear freedom—that to be safe we must do what is expected of us. by Bewildered

74 min listen

Brainwashed into Happy: Have you ever found yourself answering “I’m fine” when the exact opposite was true? - Toxic positivity, or what Martha and Ro call “happy-washing,” is the cultural pressure to force ourselves into a state of performative happiness. - by Bewildered

63 min listen

The Secret to Perseverance by Bewildered

44 min listen

Making the Right Choice: The culture believes there’s always a single right choice, and if you don't make that right choice, you could end up wasting your whole life. So is it any wonder a lot of us freeze in panic when faced with making a decision? - by Bewildered

47 min listen

[Best of Bewildered] Perfection Paralysis: Do you strive for perfection? Or does the need to be perfect prevent you from striving? - We all have some kind of beauty or wisdom inside of us, but “perfection paralysis” often stops us from sharing it. In this episode of Bewildered, by Bewildered

39 min listen

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The Anxiety Files, Vol. 2: A Tiny Crunch of Fear

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