Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast.

This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge.

I'm a coach, a hypnotologist, 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, welcome to this episode. Thanks for joining me again

on the Karma-U podcast. Hope you're well today. How are you doing? This week I'm talking to

Megan Kennedy Woodard, author of the new book, Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety. Now, if you've been listening to this episode for a while,

you'll know that I have touched on this topic before. We had Lily Cole on the podcast who has

written a book called Who Cares Wins. And I also had my good friend, Dr. Emily Lines, who is a lecturer

at Cambridge University. And we talked about climate anxiety

as well. And so for the third time, I'm talking about this topic on the podcast. And this is because

it's a topic very close to my heart, and I'm sure lots of people listening, it's, you know,

it's in the last few years,

this whole topic has completely exploded, hasn't it? We're hearing more and more about the climate

emergency and the more we talk about it, of course, a side effect of that is going to be

people feeling more anxious about it. So, yeah, and I share in this episode a bit about my own

experience of climate anxiety, which has affected me and whether or not you've actually

experienced, you know, full-blown anxiety about this topic or whether it's something that is kind

of, you know, I think for lots of us it's something that we maybe try not to think about

and that maybe is just kind of sitting at the back of our mind, kind of slowly eating away at us, ready to to pounce

at any moment. And so I think it's important that we address this topic head on so that it's not

just sitting in the back of our mind, kind of making us anxious in the background or, or indeed

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