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HERself

338: How We Navigate Situational Anxiety

HERself

Abby and Amy

Parenting, Mental Health, Education, Vulnerable, Opportunity, Grow, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Future, Best Self, Real, Purpose, Comparison, Self-improvement, Honest

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Life in your 40s can hit hard, and if you're feeling the weight of it all right now, you are not alone. In this episode, Abby gets real and personal about a difficult situation she's been navigating with one of her kids, and how the stress of it has started to feel like so much more than just "situational anxiety." Between caring for our families, keeping up with the house, showing up at work, and being everyone else's emotional rock, it can feel impossible to also take care of ourselves. But...

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0:00.0

Because I think your brain does like to explore options and be like, what could this look like?

0:06.0

How could I make a change that would work for myself and my family?

0:10.1

Like some things are solvable.

0:12.8

Some things are not solvable.

0:14.6

Like you're going to deal with both throughout your life and you just have to have some, like, be able to take a step back and look at the situation

0:22.0

and figure out which one of these is it.

0:27.5

I'm Amy.

0:29.0

And I'm Abby.

0:30.5

And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:34.4

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

0:38.1

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to

0:42.5

grow with a purpose.

0:43.8

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

0:50.1

Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:00.0

Hi, guys. We are back. And today we are going to talk about situational anxiety. If you're

1:07.0

part of our Patreon community and you listen to the last episode, you know that Abigail

1:14.0

has been going through it.

1:15.9

It's a very hard time in your life right now with your situations that are causing you anxiety.

1:22.8

And we've been talking about it for like the last 45 minutes.

1:25.8

Yes.

1:26.6

We try to troubleshoot. And honestly,

1:29.3

for some things, there's just not a great solve. So we're coming into this episode with,

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