Hello and welcome to the Calmar 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,

hello. Hope you're doing well today. So I wanted to do

an episode all about the five things that I have given up for anxiety. I posted this on my

Instagram a little while ago and it was a really popular post and I think we talk a lot about the things that we do to help

ourselves with anxiety, but actually what are the things that we are cutting out or not doing

anymore or missing out on even purposefully because we want to put our mental health first.

I wanted to talk about this and share some of the things that I have done and things

that have helped me.

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up because of anxiety was living in London. I lived in London for over 10 years. I grew up in the

north of England in Lancashire, had a dream to live in London,

always felt that was like my spiritual home and that I was going to end up being there. My parents are

Londoners. I never quite felt at home and like I belonged in the north. So I loved living in

London for 10 years. And in 2020, like a lot of people, I left the big city or a big

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