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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast

with me, Caroline Forin. If you are listening to this episode just as it's been published, I can say,

Happy New Year to you. It is now 2023 and I hope you had such a peaceful Christmas. If not, don't worry. Very few people do have one

and that you're not being too hard on yourself as we head into the new year. There is so much talk

right now about resolutions or intentions as they're more often called these days. And look,

there's nothing wrong with setting a resolution, but you just want to question the drive behind them.

Are you doing something or not doing something out of punishment? Are you denying yourself

something? Are you being self-critical of yourself in pursuit of this resolution? Is it coming

from a place of self-criticism or a place of compassion? If it's the former, you'll probably

feel a bit of anxiety. If it's the latter, it might work for you. Instead of thinking, okay If it's the former, you'll probably feel a bit of anxiety. If it's the latter,

it might work for you. Instead of thinking, okay, it's January now, I have to do this and that,

and I'm going to hate my life for a while, swap it out for a more helpful mindset of, I want to do

this. I feel that my body or my mind needs this or would benefit from this. Or I'm doing this for myself.

If there's nothing you feel you want or need to do, you don't have to go looking for something

to do or for ways to improve yourself just because it's January. It's just an arbitrary

timeframe in which people decide to take something on. Sometimes the best thing you can do,

as I said in my last

episode, is just step out of that self-improvement mindset. It's exhausting and it's constant and just

opt for maintaining what you know is already working for you. I'm not properly back yet on my new season

that will come in just a few weeks and I have some really great episodes lined up.

But before I kick off season 11, I can't believe there's been 10 seasons already, I wanted to take some time to tell you about owning it real time. You may have heard me talk about it on other

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