Generalised Anxiety: Rosemary MacCabe shares her story
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
I'm breaking up my output of experts with a first person account of what it's like living with a level of generalised anxiety that can come into play at various points of life. Rosemary MacCabe, journalist and author shares her story which includes her anxiety reaching a crescendo while working in a toxic environment - it was the wrong workplace that lit the match for my own anxiety too. From workplace anxiety to panic attacks to moving to America and becoming a mother, there's a lot to relate to here.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. |
| 0:13.0 | Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforin.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the anxiety |
| 0:22.7 | podcast with me, your host and author Caroline Foreign. This week, I wanted to share more of a first |
| 0:28.9 | person lived experience of anxiety. I like to break up the wealth of experts that I have every now |
| 0:34.6 | and then with someone who can just really talk about how it feels for them. |
| 0:38.5 | This week it's more of a generalized anxiety experience, the many different ways that anxiety |
| 0:43.0 | can pop up throughout our life, be it career anxiety, anxiety in relationships, anxiety when |
| 0:48.3 | you become a parent, there's a lot of ways, I guess if you're someone who's prone to anxiety, |
| 0:52.6 | that you're going to experience it and learn, I suppose, to live with it and to own it. And sharing her experience is |
| 0:58.5 | substack bestseller, bestselling author, and prolific writer and journalist, Rosemary McCabe. |
| 1:05.1 | I hope you enjoy hearing about her experience. As always, it's really reassuring to me to know |
| 1:09.7 | I'm never the only person to have |
| 1:11.5 | gone through something like this. I'll be back next week. Rosemary McCabe, thank you so much |
| 1:19.2 | for joining me on Owning the Anxiety podcast. We've been trying to make this work for a while, |
| 1:23.9 | and I'm very appreciative that you're here. I know. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.0 | And I hope that actually the vast number of reschedules weren't causing more anxiety. |
| 1:34.8 | No, I was also responsible for a fair few with them as well. So I know what it's like and I appreciate |
| 1:41.7 | it. And for anyone who's not familiar with you, you are about to have your second baby. Like is a matter of days? |
| 1:47.0 | My due date is December 27th. So it's like a little over two weeks. My scheduled C-section is 10 days, I think. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay. Are you going to go for that? I don't know. |
| 2:03.4 | Yeah. |
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