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The Anxiety Chicks

235. Dating with Anxiety (Alison's Dating Update): Part 2

The Anxiety Chicks

Cloud10

Mental Health, Education, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7832 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Anxiety Chicks Podcast, Alison and Taylor get real about dating with anxiety, self-image struggles, and building confidence. Alison shares her recent dating experiences—from the challenges of first dates to a girls’ night out in NYC where she set a goal to flirt and step outside her comfort zone. The conversation explores how self-worth, rejection, manifestation, and self-love all play a role in relationships. If you’ve ever struggled with dating anxiety or believing in your own value, this episode will remind you that growth and love start with opening your heart to new experiences. Don’t forget to rate and review The Chicks! 🌐 Connect With Us ⁠@theanxietychicks⁠ | ⁠@theanxietyhealer⁠ | ⁠@health_anxiety⁠ ✨ Taylor’s #1 Anxiety Healing Supplement, Free Resources & More: ⁠peakofpanic.com/collections/all⁠ Order The Anxiety Healers Guide Here: https://theanxietyhealer.com/books  🧰 Alison's Free Resources, Coaching & Healing Toolkit: ⁠www.theanxietyhealer.com⁠ 🎥 Watch Full Episodes on YouTube Subscribe for more anxiety healing content, interviews, and behind-the-scenes insight. www.youtube.com/@anxietychicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

So we started the business two years ago.

0:07.2

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

0:12.5

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

0:18.0

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. Could work to skill by himself. She could see something she shouldn't. You could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet.

0:39.2

So, should I give my kid a phone?

0:42.7

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0:44.7

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0:46.8

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0:50.4

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0:51.9

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0:53.7

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1:10.2

And I'm Taylor. And we're excited to the anxiety chick's podcast. I'm Alison Sopanara. And I'm Taylor.

1:12.6

And we're excited to be back with you all this week. If you're watching on YouTube, I am in a different location. I am down at the beach. Just kind of enjoying myself. I am here by myself. And it's been a little bit lonely as we get into

1:29.1

like the story of my dating woes. But it's been nice. It's been really nice to be here. So you're

1:34.3

maybe looking at a different background. But I'm here and I look great. Just kidding. I think that

1:41.5

I really have a hard time. This is just like a segue. Sorry, everyone, because I've been talking about this, like, on my page a lot. I have a hard time looking at myself sometimes and thinking that I, I'm so self-conscious sometimes when I don't have, you know, and I think this is a lot of women. I don't have makeup on or I just feel like I look tired and I just, I can't stand to

2:02.0

look at myself. Does that ever happen to you? Yeah. Sometimes when we record, I like I literally had to change. So my, if you notice, my background's different too. And I feel like it's a little calmer. I feel like I was getting like overstimulated by my background. But also Allison and I are working on getting the lighting better for everybody and all that.

2:17.8

So my desk, my other desk is like more by a window. And I was getting this like side light.

2:23.9

Because you know, you kept saying there's still shadows. They're still shadows.

2:27.0

Yeah. It's because this light was coming in on the side. And so it was like causing like a half blur on my like not a half blur, but you know like when,

2:35.0

you know when lighting comes in at a certain angle and you have like freckles and like

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