Episode 18: Freya

*Content Warning: this episode deals with anxiety and depression Here’s the question that inspired this week’s episode (the message has been slightly altered to preserve anonymity): "I have a great life with a supportive family and wonderful boyfriend. I do good in school and have a lot of friends, but I'm sad. Not all the time, but sometimes at night I just lay down and feel empty. I think it's partly because of my anxiety that keeps me constantly worried about my loved ones. I'm not depressed, just sad." We are excited to share a new episode, featuring our conversation with Freya Bennett, an artist, the mother of a tiny feminist and the Co Founder and Director of Ramona Magazine for Girls. In this episode, we discuss the complexities of experiencing a full spectrum of emotions and feelings in a world complicated by social media, where we are constantly confronted with images and tales of seeming perfection, happiness, and “success”. This episode is about the feelings we hide, the feelings we don’t want to show to the world, the feelings we avoid if we can and the feelings we escape by scrolling on our phones. Freya and AY demonstrate resisting this urge to craft a persona of happiness and success and talk through some of these feelings openly and honestly together. They make some suggestions for how we can mindfully and healthfully experience and embrace these emotions without shame while resisting the pressure to make happiness the end-all-be-all-goal - there’s always going to be something more, and that’s okay. To learn more about Ramona Magazine for Girls visit ramonamag.com or @ramonaforgirls on instagram. To see Freya’s illustration work visit or @thecinnamonsociety on Instagram. A podcast by Ambivalently Yours Co-produced by Hannah McCasland Recorded at Oboro Artist-Run Center in Montreal Technical support: Stéphane Claude Music: Greg Barkley

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Episode 18: Freya is an episode from Rebelliously Tiny by Ambivalently Yours.

This episode is 00:40:32 long.

This episode was published on Feb 24, 2020.

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