Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's more entrenched.
It's learned from an unpredictable childhood environment, an unpredictable relationship.
Others might catastrophize because of trauma.
Like, I think it's important to, again, have grace that there are situations that you may have been through that are going to put you in this state of like catastrophizing more than other people.
Often because it's not just about regaining control in a practicing manner, but not wanting to be blindsided.
If in the past somebody has come out and hurt you and you did not anticipate it, life has changed underneath and in front of you rapidly, you are more likely to have anxiety about the future because you have past experiences that are showing you and have taught you more than other people how quickly things can change.
There's also this fascinating psychology and this fascinating research that says that
Your level of anxiety about the future may also be a personality trait.
There's this personality trait called tolerance for uncertainty.
And essentially what this research found was that there are some people for whom ambiguity, not knowing what's going on in life, not knowing what the future is going to be,
it is so much more painful than the average person.
And it's not just because they're more sensitive.
It's not just because they, I don't know, are more politically engaged or they're more anxious.
Again, it's because of how their personality has been set up, what their temperament is.
They have this compulsive drive to want predictability, to want closure.
It's part of how they are.
It's part of who they are.
This trait was first identified in the 1990s by researchers at the Canadian Institute
university.
And they found that people with this trait often needed more reassurance about things being okay.
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