Caroline Foran
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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w we were still finding it hard, um, collectively to to move through it, to understand it, to relate to it and to overcome it.
People were um, I suppose just saying, Oh, I'm an anxious person now, that's just me forever and what I really wanted with this book was to really let people know
I am someone for whom anxiety was I was crippled by it.
I was very physically and mentally unwell.
I couldn't work.
I was living my life from one panic attack to the next.
And through everything that I did or should have done in that order in this book, had I had that awareness, I am now on the other side where it absolutely of course I have a stress response, you know, where I'm a human being, but that anxiety is no longer a feature.
It is not just like defining my
Choices and decisions and that kind of thing.
And I really do feel like I've overcome it.
Like I was a very anxious person, and I I don't even think my friends would describe me as that anymore.
Well, I was completely missing that point entirely because I was looking for a reason to justify why I was so unwell and I was looking at someone else, like my friends, who had bigger windows of tolerance and could handle way more and thinking, Oh my god, I need to get a grip or I was comparing myself to
People in far worse situations thinking that I don't have a right to feel this way, but your nervous system doesn't give a hoot about what's going on with someone else.
It it is your system, it is like living and breathing, and maybe yours is dialed up a little bit more than the next person, and that's okay.
But the more that you resist that and fight that, more friction and tension you create, and the more anxiety grows and grows.
Um so I I didn't I didn't have any of that awareness.
And so I kept myself stuck.
for the longest time and thinking I shouldn't feel this way.
Like there was no big axe murderer standing behind me to to sort of justify it.
There was no threat that I could see, but it was all these little things in both nurture and nature that
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