Hello and welcome to the Calmar 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. Hello, hello. We have taken a couple of weeks' break from the

podcast, mainly due to finding enough, not finding enough hours in the day to get everything done

and being between homes still and, yeah, need to get more organised. But I'm going to give you

a couple extra episodes and I'm

going to take a break in August and do some batch recording with some exciting guests. So,

this episode has been long overdue. I've been wanting to do this for a while and I kind of was

putting it off basically because it feels like quite a big topic but I'm going

do my best to talk about this. Obviously there are so many nuances to this topic and it will be

impossible to discuss everything. So I'm just sharing a little snapshot of this type of anxiety,

which I don't know what to call, I don't know whether to call it life stage anxiety or I think I saw on stylists.

They call it the tri-life crisis.

There's a book called The Panic Years, which, you know, that could be another word to describe it,

the panic years, but I'm going to call it life stage anxiety.

Marriage, babies,

house buying, career ladder stuff. And because it seems like, I don't know if it's the same for you,

I'm 35, every day there's another person who is posting a picture of their ultrasound on Instagram or the keys

to their new house or, you know, in my case, I follow a lot of coaches, coaches talking about how much

money they're making. And obviously it's wonderful. And I'm actually really happy for people

who are having babies and buying houses. But you can really see how

if you want those things in your life and you haven't gotten the things that you want to see seemingly

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