I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello. How are you doing?

I just want to say before I get into today's topic, thank you so much to everyone who was able to come along to the recording of the episode last weekend.

So that's June 18th of 2022,

just in case you happen to be listening in the future.

It was the first time that I'd done a live show,

so recorded an episode in front of an audience and it was such good

fun I can't wait for you to hear the episode which is going to be coming out

really really soon and I also want to say thank you to everyone who wasn't able to make it,

but still took the time to reach out to send me messages of support.

You are really a wonderful bunch. Okay, so what do I want to talk about today? Well, it's time to

revisit the topic of anxiety because recently I've been through something rather tricky that

taught me some very very interesting lessons about anxiety and also really helped me to continue to utilize, to put into practice

what I've learned in particular over the last couple of years about anxiety but also yeah what I share with you

guys. So here's the long and short of it. My little brother Sean isn't well. This has been going on for a number of months now and initially it was

put down to potentially being long COVID.

And then for 27 days, right up until a few days

before the live show last week,

we were actually under the impression that it was most likely to be lung cancer. And in that way that we can be as humans, of course you tend to go into those thoughts of like,

what, how can this be? Like it's fairly too, how could it be happening?

Because you think that even though cancer and other illnesses clearly show that they don't really care about age,

you still think that it shouldn't be happening.

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