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Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran. I am, my belly is probably going to gurgle the whole way through this. I'm a little

bit late getting this week's episode to you, and the reason for that is I was away, and if you can hear it in my voice, I am still a little bit late getting this week's episode to you and the reason for that is I was away

and if you can hear it in my voice I am still a little bit unwell as much as I would always like

to get one out at the same time each week and have one ready for first thing Monday morning.

This weekend I had to give myself a bit of a break and just rest up so thank you so much for bearing

with me.

To give you an update on where we're at with this series at the moment, we're in series nine,

can you believe it? There will be a few more episodes still to come in this season,

one of which will definitely focus on anxiety around Christmas time, as that can be just such a

huge source of anxiety, especially that we've come out of COVID

and there's a reinstated expectation to socialise as we did before. And all of that mandatory

family time, of course, can be quite a trigger for people. I know it is for me, even though I love

them to the moon and back. You can still just butt heads and resort back to the roles you had when you all lived under one roof.

So I'll definitely go into that a little bit. After this season wraps, I will take a break for a

few weeks, but during that time, I will launch owning it real time, which I'm so excited to

share. You might have seen me

talk about it on Instagram or heard it mentioned in some little promos at the beginning or end of

the podcast you're listening to now, but this will be a series of situation-specific audio guides

based on the success of my panic attack real-time rescue episode, which apparently you guys just come back to

again and again and again and you have it there for those moments when you really need it.

So this will be very similar. It'll be more drilling down into different scenarios where anxiety

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