Understanding anxiety and exercises to help

Welcome to this UQ Alumni podcast – Understanding Anxiety with Dr James Kirby. This podcast uses content originally recorded on the 19th August 2020, as part of the UQ Alumni Global Leadership Series event program. Dr James Kirby is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist at the University of Queensland. He has broad research interests in compassion science, and his clinical practice focuses on helping individuals dealing with self-criticism and shame. In this presentation, James discusses anxiety - one of the most common mental health conditions in Australia. He shares the functions of anxiety and helps us to understand and validate our experiences of it. Join the UQ Alumni-to-Alumni (A2A) mentoring platform. You never know where the next conversation could take you - bit.ly/UQA2Amentoring For more from UQ experts and alumni, check out our range of resources on the UQ Alumni and Communication Lifelong Learning website - alumni.uq.edu.au/life-long-learning. Stay connected with us on socials: Instagram: www.instagram.com/uqalumni/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/uqalumni LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-queensland/ This episode was produced by Lucy Blair for the UQ Alumni Relations and Engagement team.