Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life.

I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach.

I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best

version of themselves and fulfill their potential.

If you're ready to style your minds and transform your life, then you're in the right place.

Let's do this.

Hi guys, and welcome back to the show.

So here's something you may not know about me.

You may know this

actually if you read my books, but if you haven't read my books and you just kind of come

across me and don't know too much about my personal life, my own personal struggles,

I have suffered with anxiety issues for much of my life. They go back to, I think the first time I really remember

feeling anxious was probably as a teenager. And I just always remember having this overwhelming

sense of panic about things. Like the smallest thing always felt like the biggest thing. I

overthought things in my head. I was constantly seeking control.

And my anxiety manifested in all different ways. So I mean, everything from fear of flying to,

you know, feeling nervous, like someone was going to break in my house and like checking my door,

making sure it was locked a million times. Like, you name it, I have worried about it,

basically. And for me, it really became amplified when I was in a relationship in my 20s that was

unhealthy for me. And I was with someone that did nothing to really help my anxiety. If anything,

it kind of set my anxiety off. So it became something that I knew

that I wanted to work on. And I wanted to actively cure myself or at least get a hold of how I was

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