Caroline Foran

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534 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · Alive and Kicking Full Episode 5/7/26 · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

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Like my focus was all on it being my fault, something I had done to myself, something it was my responsibility to think my way out of, which of course completely fails to understand how anxiety lives and breeds in the body and and why it makes sense.

Um but

I r I was responding as best I could.

My my parents, my my boyfriend at the time

we didn't know what we know now.

Um, and that's why I wanted to kind of put it all down on paper.

to to to take away the noise and the um the overwhelm because people who are really anxious they're overwhelmed enough already.

So yeah, the the guide through is is just hopefully quieting things down for them a bit.

Oh absolutely.

And like absolutely it's never linear and we can circle back a few times and there was

all along the way, I which I would describe it as like my recovery, for lack of a better word, um, of of overcoming anxiety, there were lots of blips or speed bumps, as I would have called them, where it felt like I was thrust back into that anxiety and

Um then thinking, well, I've obviously, you know, I'm not doing okay here.

I must have gone backwards or I'm not getting anywhere.

And but when you can zoom out and see, you know, how maybe how you respond to yourself in those hard moments changes over time, you do start to see it's trending, it's trending in the right direction overall, but it can feel like you're being, you know, one step forward, two steps back.

And I feel that in my life as a parent as well.

It I think it's just that's just the experience of being alive anyway, is that it's never gonna be linear.

So to have that kind of patience and kindness and compassion with yourself.

And for me

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