Welcome to the Ten Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremain and I always have at least

ten things to tell you and you have ten things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you

less lonely. So I realized recently that it has been a long time since I have talked about anxiety on this

show or any kind of mental health really which is interesting because this is something that I have talked about a lot over the years.

It's been a big part of my life, a big part of the messages that I want to get out when I talk to other women

because I want people to feel seen and known. I want to destigmatize what happens with mental health, like not just

talking about it in vague terms but really talking about the specifics and what it

looks like and what it feels like and how it affects

our lives. This is something that I have been pretty interested in sharing about in my own life

for as long as I've been online. And part of that is because I'm really

open about having struggled with anxiety my whole entire life since I was a child. I write in my book, my first book, Share Your Stuff,

I'll go first. I write pretty candidly about as a child how I pulled my hair out at the root until I had bald spots all over my head and that is one of the stories in

share your stuff that got the most reaction.

So many people reached out to talk about the fact that I had shared that,

to say that they also pulled their hair out or they had. shared that

pulled their hair out or they had a kiddo who pulled their hair out and this made them feel like it was going to be okay, even though that in particular is a pretty hard thing to deal with,

it's also something that we can talk about.

So I do like sharing about mental health stuff because I think it's important. I guess like sharing

it isn't the best way to put it but I do think it's important to share it and so I always have and then I just realized that I haven't

so much in a while and it's not because there isn't always mental health

stuff going on with all of us pretty frequently.

I think it's really vital that we keep our pulse on sort of what's going on with us and also our loved ones. But I think a big

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