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

podcast. For this episode, I want to go back and look at one chapter in my most recent book, Naked,

and it's all about the power of vulnerability. This particular chapter looks at envy and jealousy

and social comparison, which can be such a trigger for anxiety, have really been so for me.

And for this, we're looking at the truth that I lay out that says, someone else's success does

not take from yours. I really hope you find this helpful. I will often dip in and out of the content

that's in my books and to bring your attention back to them. All three books are available widely

online and in bookstores. And thank you so much for

listening. Mark my words, if you manage to get to a point in life where you've successfully

turned the volume down on your inner critic, the voice of self-doubt or imposter syndrome that

resides within so many of us, or you manage to convince it that despite what it whispers to you,

you're not totally shit, it will be one of the

greatest achievements of your life. I'm what you might call an oversharer, if you've been listening

to this podcast for long or following me on Instagram. I'm someone with no filter, really.

I once told an entire audience, among which included my mother and my elderly relatives about

the time that my own mother checked in on me about a previous relationship to make sure I was on the receiving end of what she considered

an acceptable number of orgasms. I'm pretty sure I gave my 70-something-year-old uncle a mild

stroke in that moment and my mother absolutely died and she'll die again now that I'm repeating

this story here. However, I don't tend to shed about this particular insecurity from the rooftops and the reason is because I'm afraid of how it

makes me sound. On first impression, it's not the most endearing of anxieties to share.

Vocalising your feeling that someone's success has made you feel bad about yourself could

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