\r\nFriday is weekly: a digest of what the team has seen, read and listened to, and wants to share with you.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n
After four days of madness during the recent KIKK Festival, the kingkong<\/em> editorial team needed to take a deep breath.\u00a0 Not always easy when current events are experiencing rough weather. Whether it is linked to the situation in Palestine or just plain old solastalgia \u2013 this form of psychological distress which often flares up when you become aware of the climate emergency \u2013 anxiety can rapidly eat away at you. So, today, we will present you with two alternatives to calm your nerves intelligently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Camille Teste, mean anything to you? A former journalist turned yoga teacher, it would be very simplistic to reduce her to this single label. She is also an activist, feminist, author, and now the presenter of the podcast Encore heureux<\/em><\/a> (It\u2019s just as well!)<\/em> produced by Binge Audio and formerly called \u2018Apr\u00e8s la pluie\u2019 (After the Rain)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we all are, Camille is vulnerable to anxiety. Once every fortnight, her podcast gets down to the task of deconstructing the bits of advice we bombard ourselves with in order to feel better: go to sleep at fixed times, strengthen your quad muscles, do your daily 10,000 steps, communicate your emotions better, buy a shape memory pillow or see a psychologist. Advice? More like dictates which, when we do not follow them to the letter, sometimes give us the sense of being nonentities, symptomatic of the violences at work within our system. Because the real question is: can we genuinely choose not to wish to lose weight in a fatphobic world which holds fat in contempt? And yet, \u2018it\u2019s just as well\u2019, it does us no harm to look for ways of doing better physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt’s just as well!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n