Caroline Foran

So there's a lot of lived experience there.

And there was so much that I learned through doing my podcast, interviewing world-renowned experts across neuroscience, neurobiology, so many different things that I did not yet know that felt so important and such like missing pieces of the puzzle.

So I also, another big reason for it is I've noticed that people are still quite focused on trying to stop themselves from having anxious thoughts and get ahead of it.

And I think we're kind of missing the point on how anxiety works and how it moves in the body.

And we're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves to stop something from happening that's kind of automatic.

And so I wanted to really help people understand the nuts and bolts of it again.

And

A question that I would have got asked all the time in my DMs is, OK, I know what anxiety is now.

I know I'm suffering, but where do I start?

Where do I go?

So I wanted to create a very sort of prescriptive, sequential, chronological guide that people can really just take and start to get to work with.

And I remember speaking to you 10 years ago, actually, when you wrote that first book.

And I remember thinking, oh, anxiety, I've heard about that.

Do people have it?

What is that like?

Who lives with it?

What impact does it have on your life?

And now I feel I know so much more about it.

I know people who are living with it, who are challenged by it.

Do you think we've come to a point where we just have accepted that anxiety is a real condition that people actually do have to deal