Carrie Bickmore reveals how she is managing her anxiety amid coronavirus pandemic

Carrie Bickmore has previously spoken about suffering from anxiety.

And on Tuesday the mother-of-three, 39, has shared how she is coping with the unknown amid the panic and fear sweeping the globe amid the coronavirus pandemic on The Project

She revealed that her four-year-old daughter, Evie’s meditation exercises were helping her through the uncertain times.

Carrie explained that at first she thought she was handling the news well, but noticed that she was having sleepless nights.

She said: ‘I was thinking about what’s going to happen if school shuts, who is going to look after the kids, what’s going to happen with work.’ 

The TV presenter said she noticed she her heart rate was higher than usual and realised that she was feeling more anxious.

To combat the feeling, Carrie revealed that she did her daughter’s meditations to calm her down because it was on her phone.

The TV host explained: ‘I ended up playing one of the meditations I do with Evie, a 4-year-old’s smiling mind meditation, which is where you have to imagine hugging a teddy bear.’

‘I felt so much better afterwards and it was stopping and acknowledging I am feeling a bit (anxious),’ she added.

Carrie previously opened up about her mental health and revealed she sought help seeing a psychologist while pregnant with Evie following the traumatic birth of her firstborn, son Oliver, now 12. 

She also said she wanted to be open about her family’s struggles with mental illness, noting she has had anxiety and her partner Chris Walker has OCD.

‘We don’t spend a lot of time talking about it, I think,’ Carrie said.

‘We don’t take special time to talk about as if it’s a strange thing or a thing to be ashamed of or anything, it’s who we are,’ she said, adding that there should not be a stigma towards mental illness.