You're listening to this naked mind with Annie Grace.

Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast.

I'm here with Amy. Hi, Amy. How are you? I'm great. How are you, Annie?

I'm good. So good to see you. I am so excited about today and I just wanted to thank you so much

for the last three years. Oh, that's so special. Yeah, it's been great. It really has.

And I just, I didn't think I'd get emotional already. Your book meant a lot to me and it has

changed my life and it's changed my husband's life and my kids and I'm sure future generations.

So thank you. All right, let's, let's take it all the way back to the back story to that. So

let's go back to to the beginning. Where did, where did this, where did your journey?

Well, my story, I would say, is a story about anxiety, fear, and I'm not enough.

And I grew up, my life is pretty typical. I grew up in the cornfields of central Illinois.

I grew up in a very loving Christian home. Both my parents are still married to this day.

I'm the oldest of four. And there's about a five year age difference between me and my next sibling.

And so that put me in that position of being the oldest, being the, the big sister, I held a lot

of responsibility. You know, let's make sure that everything that you do, that you don't get in

trouble, that you just, you know, you're expected to be this good, obedient child. And being that

firstborn, I took this very seriously. I, I did. I want to say that the anxiety started somewhere in

probably, I mean, really started when I was probably at about fourth or fifth grade. And I think

the reason I had so much anxiety and fear is because my, my dad worked for the airlines industry.

I grew up in central Illinois, and that's the head, the headquarters of Caterpillar. And

there was always strikes or fear of strikes, you know, my dad worked for you. It was a union

person. And so I always had this fear that what if something happened to my dad's job?

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