Welcome, everyone to not another anxiety show.

I'm Erica Latham.

And today, I wanted to take a moment to just take a collective breath with all of you.

The last couple of weeks, especially this week, has been a doozy, hasn't it?

There is almost no consolation for the fear and unknowns that are running rampant in the world right

now other than to say that us anxious folk have been prepared for this our whole lives.

Maybe not for this particular series of events, but well, we kind of know what it feels like

to live in our own heads and to live in fear,

don't we?

And as terrible it is as it is to say this, but the rest of the world might now kind of get

a glimpse of what the inside of our brains look like.

Not that I would ever wish that on even my worst enemy.

But we know what it looks like to live in a scary world because we've lived in it in our heads for a while.

And those things are very real.

We know that fear can run away with itself.

We know that facts or sometimes air quotes facts can

sometimes feel subjective and that they don't ever quell our fears. The beautiful thing about

folks like us is that we've gotten stuck in the sticky bits of anxiety and we get to

reach out of hand to those who are freshly in it. We know that telling our scared family and

neighbors and friends to quote, just relax is heartless.

We know what it feels like to be told that when we are in the thick of things.

Because we know that staying up all night worrying feels worse than anything else on earth,

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