Interfering Neurotic

It’s a jungle out there for functional neurotics looking for love. Dating demands you bring your best self to the table, but what truths do we disguise in our effort to make ourselves more appealing and palatable to others?

Coming up, we explore:

• What it means to be passionate and intense when men want laid back and easy going
• Going with your gut when a dy...

Do you routinely cut yourself off from feeling? Do you bristle at the act of having to perform a “work-friendly” version of yourself? There are many ways we compartmentalise ourselves and our emotions.

Coming up, we explore:

• The themes of Severance, and what they mean for authenticity and emotional truth
• Taking a break from the “performance of identity”

Are you an expert at the sulk and serving up the silent treatment? It can be hard enough managing our own big feelings but what about when we need to let our loved ones in on our emotional chaos in a way that won’t leave them running for the hills?

In this ep, we chat about:

• Pre-gaming emotional tiffs before they blow out
• Growing out of the...

We finish off our two-parter on overthinking and take a deep dive into the emotions we’re ignoring when we retreat into rumination.

We explore:

• Whether complex emotions are the culprits luring us into overthinking
• Why “why” is a fraught question to ask ourselves when we’re feeling vulnerable
• How to get out of our heads and i...

Overthinking is the plight of many of us big feelers - but if it leaves us feeling worse, why do we do it at all? and what might we do instead?

Coming up, we chat about:

• Greys Anatomy as a tool of emotional catharsis
• Whether rumination is the same as a compulsive behaviour
• The itchiness of emotionally-charged 2am thoughts

When big feelings are a huge feature of your life, how do you understand the people in your life who experience their emotions in different ways? And how might we communicate better so they can understand the weird emotional ways we operate?

We chat about:

• Needing responsible role models of people who feel big feelings
• Questions to ask the ...

Being emotional is often synonymous with instability, drama and difficulty. How might we create a new narrative for emotionality that doesn't leave us branded as walking disasters?

Coming up, we dive into:

• Ash’s mindfulness spa experiment and how marathon training is like a meditation retreat
• People’s discomfort with your discomfort and the agony of being ...

We're often encouraged to "feel our feelings" as a route to healing and greater self-awareness, but what does it even mean? And exactly how does one go about it?

This episode explores:

• The difference between feelings and emotions
• How to tease apart physical vs emotional sensations
• Why sense-making gets in the way of us feeling feelings in our bodies

Why are we drawn to sharing our inner worlds, and is it more urgent and more complicated when you're neurotic?

This episode explores:

• The urge to take our private journaling public
• The personality types that have an easier time keeping it real
• The benefits of spilling your guts online
• If living mindfully is incongruent with doing it “for ...

This is Interfering Neurotic with me, Dr Ash King, and mindfulness coach, Daron Larson - where we navigate a life lived with the curses and blessings of big feelings.

Coming up, we explore: 

• The reality show that is US politics and how we feel about it
• The Big 5 Personality Test and what ingredients make for a neurotic individual
• Art and cre...

Welcome to our first ep of Interfering Neurotic with Dr Ash King, and Daron Larson - where we navigate a life lived with the curses and blessings of big feelings. Together, we explore why we think, feel and act the ways we do (sometimes against our better judgement) and the deranged pursuits we embark upon to find ourselves, fix ourselves and keep fooling ourselves. 

In Episode 1, we tack...