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Listen to a Podcast

"When my anxiety is at its worst, I like to close my eyes and listen to Poetry Unbound [podcast] from On Being," standards and ethics editor Chris Roney says. "Pádraig Ó Tuama does these beautiful, breathy, emphatic poetry readings in his Irish drawl, then unpacks a poem's contents before reading it again. For one, his voice instantly puts me at ease: I de-tense. But the poetry itself, with its starts and stops, forces me to be present to my own breathing." Roney notes that he can gradually divert his attention to those words to find comfort.

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