Mental Health Awareness with Aidan Loughnane
20 October - 15 minsThis episode contains discussions around suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
Valerie is joined by mental health advocate and content creator Aidan Loughnane (Running With Aidan) for an honest conversation about what it really looks like when you’re not okay - and how hard it can be to say it out loud.
Aidan shares his journey with anxiety, panic attacks and OCD from his teens, the day he felt he couldn’t go on, and the devastating loss of his brother.
They talk therapy, the power of opening up, why “you can’t see the sky from the trees” when you’re in it, and how running helped him find purpose again.
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