Stress and Anxiety

Episodes

• Episode 6 – Taking the long view 15.01.2025 23m

  This podcast encourages you to think about the bigger picture to help you to get some perspective on any stress and anxiety you might currently be experiencing, and includes drawing up a plan for how to feel less stressed and anxious in the future.
• Episode 5 – How understanding what’s going on in our bodies, brains, and minds can help us to counteract stress and anxiety 14.01.2025 31m

  This podcast considers how an awareness of what is going on in our bodies, brains, and minds from a physiological and neurological perspective can help us to counteract stress and anxiety, and includes ten practical strategies that can help.
• Episode 4 – How can understanding our early childhood development help when we feel anxious now? 13.01.2025 21m

  This podcast focuses on how an awareness of child development and our early childhood experiences can help us to explore and start to understand our current anxieties.
• Episode 3 – Anxiety 12.01.2025 20m

  This podcast investigates anxiety from a medical and a psychodynamic perspective, including formal diagnoses and other ways of categorising anxiety, plus an exercise on identifying potential causes of underlying anxiety.
• Episode 2 – Stress 11.01.2025 17m

  This podcast focuses on different kinds of stress: helpful and unhelpful stress, acute and chronic stress, and macro and micro-stress, and offers a practical way in which you can start to get some control back over any stress you might be experiencing.
• Episode 1 – Introduction 10.01.2025 19m

  This first podcast defines stress and anxiety, explores common causes of stress and anxiety amongst the student community at the University of Oxford, and outlines key signs and symptoms to look out for.