We all feel stressed, right? We feel dread-full. We’ve done Pilates and lit a candle and had a bath and, in Annabel’s case, fallen asleep in it. But still. The panic. WE NEED SOLUTIONS. So this week we’re thrilled to have Dr Sam Akbar on the podcast. She's at the frontline of serious, heart-breaking stress; a clinical psychologist who treats refugees and survivors of torture with post-traumatic stress disorder. Now Sam is applying those hard-won skills to our everyday flavours of stress with her excellent new book, Stressilient. We talk about how to be psychologically prosperous, how to stop being afraid of our feelings and why mindfulness should sack its PR team - plus there are lots of exercises to give us all a little of bit of space…have a listen and feel a bit better. We did. 

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