And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 175.

It's titled Anxiety of the Unknown.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

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This week's was the first in a series all about attachment theory, quite a big topic. So I'm going to be going through it over

many episodes, I'd have thought over the next few weeks. And if you've been thinking of

becoming a patron, but we're waiting for the right time, this might be it, actually,

because attachment and how the effects of attachment injuries affect us all is really, really

useful to get your head around. Honestly, it really, really is.

And I'm very happy to walk and talk you through it. So, go to patreon.com forward slash Richard Nichols,

and you can listen to Monday's episode right now if you wanted to. Or you can wait, because this

might be an important episode for you too, actually. It's a topic suggestion from a patron, Gillian.

Hi, Gillian.

Gillian asked my take on how to deal with the uncertainty of things being outside of our control.

And over the last couple of years, I've had a few messages saying similar things,

and it's cropped up in the consulting room a lot, actually.

And one thing that has been

a big cause of it has tip people over the edge has been bluming Brexit. Not just that, but

it hasn't helped. Not knowing whether something about your future is going to be easier, more

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