How To Make Catastrophic Thinking Work In Your Favour

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

For this episode I am explaining a few key tools that I use again and again when feeling anxious about an upcoming event or a change of some kind. Fear hacking - using catastrophic thinking to work in your favour - followed by positive visualisation which involves a tool in itself called 'anchoring' and much more. This episode is just me and the content I'm discussing is based on what you'll find laid out in my 13 part toolkit in The Confidence Kit, my second book to have been published. Available now on audiobook and in hardback/paperback online and in book stores.

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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
0:22.2	Onyh the Anxiety Podcast with myself, Caroline Forin. I hope you've been enjoying season six so far.
0:28.5	We've had a lot of different guests on, and I'm already recording for season seven,
0:33.1	and we've got a lot more guests coming your way. But as I'm kind of getting close to wrapping up this
0:37.7	season and taking a small break, I wanted just to bring things back again to basics as I always
0:42.3	like to do. So for this episode, it's just myself. I'm not talking to any experts and I'm going back
0:48.9	to some of the tools that I find incredibly helpful, especially when we're anxious around an upcoming event. And I think now that
0:57.1	I suppose you could say we're living in a, well, we're beginning to emerge into a post-COVID era,
1:03.9	we may be facing things again that we haven't had to face in a while. Maybe it's a new job
1:09.3	interview, maybe it's a presentation, maybe it's
1:11.3	whatever it is for you, like a trip that's coming up that makes you feel overwhelmed or anxious.
1:16.4	I've been talking a bit on this series about change and how to handle change in different ways.
1:22.0	So for this episode, I'm going to go back to some of the tools around, I suppose, building
1:26.3	confidence in the face of change and
1:28.4	the fear of things not working out. The first one I want to talk you through is fear hacking. And it's
1:34.2	a tool that you'll find laid out in my second book, The Confidence Kit. And really, it's the perfect
1:39.7	tool for people who, like me, roll their eyes when people say, oh, just be positive and just, you know,
1:45.3	assume it'll all work out. Not always the most useful strategy you'll find. Hopefully, these are
1:51.0	things you'll be able to apply to your day-to-day life from the minute you finish this episode.
1:56.6	So we live in a society that certainly favours positivity. We say good vibes only or don't worry,
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