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 and welcome

to this episode where I'm going to be talking

about Christmas anxiety. And you might have noticed I've had a bit of a break from the podcast.

I've been trying to move house and hopefully actually moving house at the end of the week

and just getting a lot of episodes ready for January. So the podcast will be back to regular

releases in January. I've got some amazing guests coming up. So yeah, keeping out for that.

I also wanted to let you know that I have a new free resource that I've made for you,

and it's for those of you that struggle with high functioning anxiety. Now, you might have heard

the term high functioning anxiety. You might have seen me talk about it on Instagram. It's basically

anxiety where you might seem fine on the outside. Maybe you, you know, your work's going

quite well. You've got a, you know, successful, quote unquote, home life. And people wouldn't necessarily even know that you're anxious. But inside, you struggle with self-doubt. You put a lot of pressure on yourself. You're a perfectionist. You beat yourself up about little things, you know, on a regular basis. So it's really where we are functioning well in

our lives, but inside we might be really struggling. So I've made a workbook for high functioning

anxiety and it's designed to help you to get really clear on exactly what it is that's

holding you back the most. And then it guides you in how to make changes on the

number one thing that you're struggling with and yeah how to turn that around basically so it's a

really useful tool the feedback I've had so far has been that it's you know really helpful so

you can grab it at karma C-A-L-M-E-R, hyphen, that little dash

u-Y-O-U dot com forward slash workbook. Just pop your details in there and I'll send it right over.

So let's get into the topic of Christmas anxiety. I think, you know, when I was researching this

episode, I was really thinking about how there's so much pressure for us all to have the same

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