How to support yourself while you support others
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Join me on @OwningItPodcast for more. This week it's just me and I'm talking through the feelings of overwhelm and anxiety we can get when we are trying our best to support other people. Recently I found that a lot of my nearest and dearest were going through very tough times at once and while trying to be there as much as I could, I ran myself entirely out of gas. What can we do when our empathy leaves us feeling overwhelmed? How do we support ourselves when trying to support others? I also talk a bit about what's going on for your brain when this is happening, as well as touching on the feelings of anxiety you might be dealing with as you consume news from Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to owning it. |
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| 0:11.2 | where I write a weekly column. |
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| 0:15.7 | at carolineforen.substack.com. |
| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, |
| 0:36.0 | your host, Caroline Forin. This week, it's just me. It's been a while since I did a solo episode. |
| 0:39.1 | And according to your feedback, you seem to like these ones when it's just me. I find them really helpful for me as well. They give me a |
| 0:43.3 | chance to just slow down and turn inwards and really think about something in greater detail. |
| 0:49.2 | And they also helped me to realize how far I've come. For this episode, I want to talk to you about the |
| 0:54.9 | anxiety we can feel when we are trying our best to support other people. This has been something |
| 0:59.6 | I've really been feeling lately and I want to share my experience with you. When I was thinking |
| 1:04.1 | about recording this episode, I knew it was something I really wanted to talk about as I got such |
| 1:08.0 | a strong reaction when I mentioned over on my Instagram |
| 1:11.6 | that I was feeling quite overwhelmed for that reason. So I know it's something that we can all |
| 1:15.4 | struggle with but I immediately went into, okay you have to find a solution for this mode. So often |
| 1:21.6 | I think when we identify an issue that's half the battle but we say okay you know I'm finding |
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