Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnototherapist and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Welcome, welcome. This week I am speaking to Sarah Wilson, who is an activist and an author.

You might know her from her work. Several years ago, she wrote the book, I Quit Sugar.

And then she went on to write, How We Make the Beast Beautiful, which was a book about anxiety,

really brilliant. And she has a new book out

called This One Wild and Precious Life. I think Sarah is amazing. I was really, really excited to speak to her.

She's a massive role model for me, I have to say. I think she's incredible. She sold her company,

that I quit sugar company, and gave 80% of the profits to charity.

And she continues to give the vast majority of her money to charity.

She's a big environmental activist and an incredible writer.

And we get into talking about what Sarah describes as the itch and she explains what this is and trust

me you probably have the itch you may not have known you had the itch but you probably have it

and you're going to want to know what that is we talk about the thing that finally turned Sarah's

anxiety around having experienced severe anxiety for her whole life.

She has recently found something that has really helped her to turn things around.

And we're talking about how Sarah processes her feelings of grief, anxiety and anger.

A lot of the book that she's just written is about big topics.

It's about 2020.

It's about the climate. It's about all our problems that we have as a

result of living in this modern life that we live. And really shining a light on those things

brought up a lot of feelings for her. And so I wanted to know how she processes her own

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