LOOKS AND BOOKS is a weekly podcast from lifelong friends Cat & Olly that meets at the intersection of fashion and literature whilst discussing and laughing about everything in between. Join us every Thursday as we explore our favourite looks and books pertaining to our fortnightly theme and for our biweekly book club ‘Reading Is Fundamental’, where we will tackle a book that neither of us has even opened before.
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As a mentally ill hot girl who has struggled with unrealistic beauty standards since the womb and could use a (theoretical but maybe literal) lobotomy, therapist and author Alegra Kastens intertwines her clinical wisdom and lived experience to gab about books of all genres. Not a bookworm? Have no fear (or do because #anxiety): she has done the reading for you. All you have to do is tune in, Lobotomommies!
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OCD Is An Earthquake In The Brain with Stephen Smith
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Stephen Smith, co-founder of the teletherapy platform NOCD, joins us to share his lived experience with OCD (sexual obsessions, relationship obsessions, and more) that fueled him to create a a virtual therapy platform specializing in the treatment of OCD. Like many, Stephen did months of general talk therapy with a therapist who didn’t understand O…
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Healing from CPTSD with Stephanie Foo
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Stephanie Foo, author of the New York Times bestseller What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, brought CPTSD to the forefront of mental health care. She joins us to talk about her healing journey, what CPTSD recovery means to her, emotional flashbacks, the painstaking search for a therapist, “the dread”, and more.This podcast i…
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Brain on Fire with Susannah Cahalan
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Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire, joins the Lobotomommies today! She talks the doctor who saved her life, the importance of holistic mental health care, physiological causes of mental health conditions, and more. As the 217th person to be diagnosed with anti-NDMA receptor autoimmune encephalitis, naturally esc…
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Surviving Suicide with Chrissie Hodges
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In part two of this discussion, Chrissie opens up about her suicide attempt that led to her hospitalization and OCD diagnosis. She also shares her OCD treatment experience utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and recovery journey.This podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers effective, affordable, and convenient OCD therapy. Schedu…
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Sexual Orientation OCD with Chrissie Hodges
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Peer support specialist and OCD advocate Chrissie Hodges joins Books, Looks, and Lobotomies to talk about her memoir Pure OCD: The Invisible Side of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In part one of this discussion, Chrissie shares her journey with emetophobia and sexual orientation OCD that nearly ended her life. This podcast is made possible by NOCD.…
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OCD and Mental Compulsions
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On this week’s episode of Books, Looks, and Lobotomies, licensed therapist and OCD specialist Alegra Kastens talks Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and mental compulsions. She provides information about specific mental compulsions, how Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) works with mental compulsions, stopping mental compulsions, and whether or…
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Amanda Montell's "The Age of Magical Overthinking"
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Welcome back, Lobotomommies! This week, Alegra chats with Amanda Montell (Wordslut, Cultish, Sounds Like A Cult Podcast) about her latest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking. While discussing the cognitive biases that run wild through our brains, Alegra and Amanda also get deep about past relationships and "overpacking" their lives. This podcast …
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Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
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In the first episode of her new podcast, Alegra reads "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath; a semi-autobiographical novel that covers all of this podcast's talking points: books, gender issues and feminism, and mental health. Alegra dissects the book, pausing to give personal anecdotes from her life, while also breaking down some of the backstory of the …
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Episode 37: Cat, Olly & Heartburn
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Welcome back to Looks and Books with Cat & Olly, and to episode SEVENTEEN of our Reading is Fundamental book club! This week, we’re taking on a short but sweet modern classic, Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Join us for our final episode before our Spring hiatus for some rather momentous life updates, a good old bookish chat and our trademark bouts of oc…
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Episode 36: Cat, Olly & Rom-Coms
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Welcome back to Looks and Books with Cat & Olly! Very quickly, some housekeeping: first of all, thank you for your continued patience with our upload schedule. Due to Cat’s ever-looming final university deadline, we’re currently running on a fortnightly upload basis, and after our next episode (which will go out on March 28th), we’ll be taking a mo…
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