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Why Do I Feel?

7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

Welcome to WHY DO I FEEL? a podcast that takes us on an emotional journey into people’s lives. We share stories to help make sense of our experiences and to know that we are not alone.


In each episode award-winning author and mental health expert, Nathan Filer invites us to consider a challenging emotion by listening to real-life stories and hearing from world-leading experts and therapists. We live in strange times, which have inspired many of us to examine our lives more closely. WHY DO I FEEL? embraces that curiosity and self-reflection. Sometimes, this will touch upon deep sorrow, but there will also be joy, playfulness and hope.


Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey. Artwork by Alexandra Peake.


Supported by Arts Council England.


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Episodes

Modern-Day Sin-Eaters

September 23, 2021 07:40 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

In this final episode of the series, we meet people who consume the worst horrors of the internet so that we don't have to. But at what cost? Guests include: Chris Gray, an ex-content moderator who's suing Facebook for the trauma he’s suffered. Ryan Broderick author of The Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host of The Content Minds podcast. Dr Jennifer Beckett lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne specialising in the wellbeing of digital workers. ...

Ancient & Female Anger

September 21, 2021 11:41 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

After losing her job, Leah hatched a violent revenge plot against her ex-colleagues...  Guests include: Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, where he researches and teaches the history of emotions. @ProfThomasDixon  Victoria Gath, a psychotherapist who works with Clean Break, a charity supporting women in the criminal justice system. Her practice is influenced by the work of Harriet Lerner. Special thanks to Clean Break for their support with this episod...

The Many Faces of Anger

September 21, 2021 11:41 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

After losing her job, Leah hatched a violent revenge plot against her ex-colleagues...  Guests include: Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, where he researches and teaches the history of emotions. @ProfThomasDixon  Victoria Gath, a psychotherapist who works with Clean Break, a charity supporting women in the criminal justice system. Her practice is influenced by the work of Harriet Lerner. Special thanks to Clean Break for their support with this episod...

Guilty or Not Guilty?

September 17, 2021 17:43 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB

When she was 22 years old, Maryann was driving along a rural highway in Ohio. A small boy darted in front of her car. She slammed on her breaks, tried to swerve but was unable to avoid the collision. He died before reaching the hospital. This episode explores the emotion of guilt. Maryann Jacobi Gray is a social psychologist, Assistant Provost at UCLA and the founder of accidentalimpacts.org, a site supporting people who’ve accidentally killed or injured someone. Written and presented by N...

The Green-Eyed Monster

September 15, 2021 08:09 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

In this episode, we explore envy and jealousy. Nathan confesses to his own feelings of professional envy towards other authors and gets some live therapy to help him. We also meet Yvonne who desperately wanted children. And ‘T’, whose relationship was destroyed by his painful feelings of retroactive jealousy. Dr Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He specialises in single-session therapy...

A Taxonomy of Emotion

September 12, 2021 17:17 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Welcome to WHY DO I FEEL? a podcast that takes us on an emotional journey. We share stories to help make sense of our experiences and to know that we are not alone. In this series, real people talk about emotional turning points in their lives. How they felt in these moments, and how their lives were changed. We’ll look at each story through the lens of a single emotion, or at least that’s where we’ll start… but feelings aren’t that simple. Dougie was betrayed and sought revenge. Cathrine w...

Why Do I Feel? - Trailer

August 13, 2021 16:16 - 4 minutes - 87.3 MB

WHY DO I FEEL? hosted by Nathan Filer is coming in September 2021. Subscribe now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.