Caroline Foran

And what I really wanted to do with this book, which I like and what I feel like was maybe missing from other books about anxiety was they tend to conceptualize what anxiety is and talk kind of around and around about it.

I really wanted to be like, OK, we get that.

We were like, it's 2026.

We know that.

What do I do?

So this is actually quite prescriptive.

It's like, no, no, literally start here and watch out for this and turn this and don't skip this bit and go this in this exact order.

And I promise you there'll be such a difference between

step one and step 10 if you take the time with it.

You're road mapping it out.

It literally is a road map but it's also part memoir because I obviously had to bring myself into it.

So I'm really proud of it.

I know if it gets into the right hands and that's out of my hands really.

I can't wait to read it.

But I know that it will make a huge difference to someone who like the person I was.

back then anyone in that situation or anyone who's trying to understand themselves better but like you know yourself it doesn't matter how good something is it's like a lot of it's to do with luck and timing and someone else like opening the door for you or landing on oprah's desk maybe but i'm very happy fingers crossed i'm very happy it's landed on emma keogh's desk oh

that you can think your way out of it, that it's your thoughts are the problem.

exercise that actually doesn't make me feel good afterwards like observing how you feel not just in the moment but in the aftermath so like I remember doing a lot of running at the time thinking this is what everyone was doing and I felt so much worse because running is actually quite a strain on your nervous system and my heart would be racing and it just didn't suit me and it's amazing for some people but for me like a slower more resistance based thing this is not a rapid fire answer

Anything that kind of triggered my parasympathetic nervous system versus stimulating my sympathetic nervous system, which didn't need any more stimulation.

That to me was something I was like, no, I'm not doing that anymore.