Caroline Foran

I don't think we're meant to even figure that out.

Like maybe that's it.

Like that we don't know and that we can't know.

But for me, what gives my life meaning is...

to love and be loved.

I am joined now in studio by author and podcaster Caroline Foran, who I think will be very familiar to lots of Newstalk listeners who no doubt have read your first book, Owning It, where you spoke about the condition of anxiety and what it had meant to you.

And you have a new book now, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety.

Why did you write it?

So a good question.

And I did have to ask myself that as well.

Why did I need to revisit this topic?

And I realised there was so much I had still left to say.

There was so much I had learned since the first book.

It was 10 years ago now that I was writing that first book when I was actually penning it.

Yeah.

And I was really just at the time still very much coming out the other side of very, very crippling anxiety where I was quite ill.

So I was trying to get back on two feet.

In that time, I've

lived through, we've all lived through the pandemic, many different things going on.

I became a mother.