Ep 237. Health Anxiety and a Cancer Diagnosis with Melonie Smith

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Join Kelli and guest Melonie Smith as Melonie shares her history with health anxiety and recent cancer journey. Spoiler alert: While cancer sucks, Melonie describes how her cancer experience isn't playing out the same way her anxiety told her it would.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and
0:16.0	joining me today is guest Melanie Smith. Hi, Melanie. Hi, Kelly. Thanks for hopping on the show today. My pleasure.
0:24.7	Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you before we start chatting? Absolutely.
0:29.7	Wonderful. Melanie is a wife to Stephen and mom to two girls, age 17 and 12. Her favorite
0:36.6	place to be is at home where she's obsessed
0:38.5	with home decorating and party planning. She recently left corporate America to lean into her
0:43.3	side hustle as a florist. She cannot remember a time in her life that anxiety wasn't present.
0:48.7	She's made great strides in her relationship with her anxious mind and is looking forward
0:52.1	to sharing what she's learned. You can find her on Instagram at Oxford and Ivy Lifestyle, where she shares interior
0:58.8	design, flowers, and her cancer journey.
1:03.5	So, Melanie, you and I have actually known each other for six years or so.
1:10.0	They all go together. We have. Yeah. And so this is a really
1:16.7	nice, unique opportunity to reconnect. Do you want to tell a little bit more about how we came
1:22.4	to know each other so long ago? Sure. As you said in the bio, I think I came out of the womb with anxiety. I can't
1:31.2	remember my life without it. And in fact, when I was kind of thinking about what we were going to
1:37.5	talk about today, I thought of a quick little funny thing just to show you how long anxiety's
1:42.3	been a part of my life. I can remember one of my first
1:45.5	memories as a kid and I probably was four or five. We were having a birthday party for me at a park.
1:51.3	So all the family was there. You know, we're running around having a great time. I can remember this like
1:56.4	raggedy and cake and we were eating watermelon. And I remember swallowing watermelon seeds.
2:04.2	And my little mind thought, how sad, I'm going to die. I'm not going to tell my parents today
2:09.9	because I don't want to ruin their day, but it's unfortunate I'm going to die. So anxiety and
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