\u201cI was a new presenter, I had quite a lot going on, and I think she could feel the burden of it all. She gave me this meditation card which reads: I am no longer a prisoner of my past, past regrets, earlier traumas, pain and suffering, I believe in miracles and a joy-filled future, I gain the courage to let go! I let go of everything.”<\/p>\n
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Kirsty still carries the card to this day and refers to it when those feelings begin to resurface. \u201cI think she felt me holding a lot of anxiety and I think we all do,\u201d said Kirsty. \u201cAnd during moments when I\u2019m anxious or thinking, \u2018Did I do a good job?\u2019 or worrying about things, I think it\u2019s quite interesting to produce this [card] and go, \u2018Ok, let\u2019s just have a moment and be reflective.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
“Anxiety has never been my friend”<\/p>\n
She went on to share how anxiety \u201chas never been my friend\u201d and how she often feels overloaded by her responsibilities. \u201cI get overwhelmed by life and what I need to do and what I\u2019ve not done and what I need to be doing,\u201d Kirsty shared. \u201cI think that\u2019s being a busy, single working mum, a parent of two \u2013 every different age produces a different journey as a parent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m [also] a bit of people pleaser \u2013 I don\u2019t like confrontation, I don\u2019t like upsetting anybody, I like people to be happy, and I\u2019m always thinking, have I done a good job? I\u2019m a perfectionist, everything has to be in order.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nowadays, she explained, there\u2019s a pattern to it and her partner has helped her make a small change that\u2019s had big impact. \u201cWhen I get that overwhelmed feeling, which my family know very well \u2013 my partner always says to me, \u2018You need a break every three months, a proper switch off\u2019. It might be a long weekend or something \u2013 just go away and come back, recharge your batteries. He says, \u2018I\u2019ve watched it for two years and that\u2019s your thing\u2019. Also, keeping my exercise and looking after myself [is important]. <\/p>\n
“I felt like I was an intruder”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the episode, which you can listen to here<\/a>, Kirsty opened up about her early years as a sports presenter, sharing how she felt like she was a woman in a man\u2019s world when she started out. \u201cI felt like I was an intruder\u201d, she said. \u201cThere were a lot of traditionalists and there was a lot of navigating difficult moments. Sky Sports were brave and brilliant, and I think they\u2019ve done a lot for changing the landscape for women and women in sport. They changed lots of things in sport, but especially in women\u2019s sport. We never used to talk about women\u2019s sport in the beginning \u2013 maybe a bit of women\u2019s golf, but never football of rugby.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if she had to be tough, she responded: \u201cVery tough. I think Gaby [Roslin] and I both had not just the traditionalist \u2018women are talking about football, how dare they? views \u2013 but we also had nepotism to defeat, too. There were lots of people who were like, \u2018Hang on a minute, are they only here because of their fathers and their upbringing, how dare they?\u2019 So we had to work extra hard and one thing I would always say, and it goes for any job, leave no stone unturned. Aways do more work than you thought you might have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n You can listen to My Life in a Biscuit Tin series 2, sponsored by DFS, including the full episode with Gaby Roslin, on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch the full interview on the Good Housekeeping YouTube channel.<\/a> READ MORE CELEBRITY NEWS HERE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever had that feeling where you feel overwhelmed by the weight of your responsibilities? One person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1232,49,48,84,106075,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-220512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-anxiety","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-kirsty-gallacher","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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