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

with me, Caroline Forin. I'm getting very excited now. My book is going to hit shelves next week if you're

listening as and when these episodes go live. So very exciting times here. I will be able to share the link

and it won't be a pre-order link.

It will be something you can actually order and get delivered to your door in a matter of

hours. So very exciting. I've said that three times. I will continue. So today's conversation

goes a little bit deeper than the usual anxiety discussion, although I think we go pretty deep

in this series overall. Rather than focusing on

symptoms or tools, we're exploring anxiety through the lens of how the brain actually works,

particularly how attention, threat detection and nervous system patterns shape our experience

long before conscious thought kicks in. And in particular, we're looking at how we are wired

from the moment we come into the world and the impact

that that has on our tendency towards anxiety. My guest today is Dr. Chad Sylvester. He's a

psychiatrist and a neuroscientist specializing in anxiety. He brings a neuroscience-informed

perspective to anxiety that I always am fascinated with, and it helps explain why anxiety can feel so convincing,

so persistent, and so hard to think your way out of. This episode is about understanding anxiety,

not as a personal failing, or something to eradicate, but as a brain state, and what that means

for how we relate to it, especially when it keeps coming back. There's also some really fascinating

research in it that he mentions that will make you rethink your experience of anxiety from day one. Thanks so much for tuning in

and make sure to get the book. It's called Everything I Wish I'd known about anxiety by yours truly.

Chad, I'm so, so glad that we're having this conversation. Welcome to Owning It the Anxiety Podcast.

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