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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline

Forren. This will be my last episode of 2022 and I will be back early in the new year with

owning it real time, which I'm so excited to share

and finally put out into the world. I will be talking a little bit more about that on social media.

When I'm back on social media, I've been off it for a while, which has been honestly blissful.

And then I will be back with my regular programming of owning it, The Anxiety Podcast,

with my regular guests and solo episodes and that kind of thing in February.

So lots to come. Can't believe I'm still on this journey.

This will be the fourth year running, I think, for owning it.

I never thought I'd get this far. I didn't think I'd have enough to say,

but the world keeps changing and unfortunately there's just still new ways to experience anxiety

and the good thing is we're just understanding it more with each passing year. I certainly am.

I feel worlds away from where I was when even I first started this podcast and that was even

after I wrote my books, there's always so much more to explore and different ways to own it and

just normalize our experience of stress and anxiety. In this episode, it's just me. I want to talk

about the anxiety in and around the Christmas holidays, as that's right where we are at this

time of publishing Christmas, I think, certainly for someone who is prone to anxiety, can drive it up

a few notches. I have some lovely Christmas memories. I have some really awful Christmas memories

when my anxiety was at its worst,

and I approach it each year with a very specific mindset, and getting to that point has made it a lot more enjoyable,

and it's kind of the same way I would have approached the likes of my wedding, where there's all this pressure to be joyful and happy and picture perfect postcard, winter wonderland stuff.

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