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 · The roadmap for anxiety care · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

Um, but the f the big fear with with with anxiety, you're always looking over your shoulder thinking, what if it, you know, comes back or what if I

what if I just completely fall apart again?

And what I really wanted and what I needed when I was that person was it wasn't about reading a book or hearing from an expert saying, Oh, this will how how's how it will happen.

I needed to hear from someone who was just like me who could say, I know how absolutely, truly awful this feels.

I know that you are

living just suspended in fear the whole time.

I promise you it's not always going to be this way.

So it was really cathartic for me to to kind of write backwards to myself or or, you know, how much that would have meant to me at the time.

And I didn't have such a person, but now I hopefully I can be that person for other people to say, no, I didn't just have a few bits of worries, you know, because people think, Well do you really know how it feels?

I know how crippling and how destabilizing it can feel.

And no matter how dark it gets or how low you get

there is no reason to think that you cannot, you know, eventually come out the other side.

Yeah, and like we can only do the best with the information we have at the time.

And like for me looking back, I didn't even know what anxiety was.

I certainly had no awareness of the nervous system.

It was all

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

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