Owning It: Anxious about returning to normal post-covid?

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of Owning It, it's just me and I'm talking through a very real anxiety that a lot of us are facing: anxiety around returning to normal post covid. It might sound silly, to be anxious about getting back to the life we lived before - when Covid has been a major source of anxiety for many of us, but something has happened. We've found comfort in the discomfort and we've gotten very used to life in lockdown, so emerging out of it brings its own challenges, socially and physically for our bodies. I hope you find this episode helpful and reassuring.

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1:04.6	with yours truly, Caroline Forren.
1:07.2	Today, it's just myself.
1:09.4	I wanted to take a moment to do a solo episode and talk about something
1:15.2	that I think according to my Instagram DMs is a very legitimate anxiety that a lot of us are
1:21.8	facing now as we begin to emerge finally from COVID. So it sounds bizarre. It will definitely sound bizarre to
1:32.9	probably your most social butterflyist of pals to be feeling uneasy about going back to the thing
1:40.2	that we had taken from us. But I want to talk here about why it makes sense and why
1:47.8	it's okay to feel that way, why it's normal to feel that way, and sort of things that we can
1:53.0	keep in mind to help ourselves adjust back to or adjust forward to whatever this new normal
2:00.5	will look like. Also just to say, you know,
2:04.1	this is an anxiety that I myself am struggling with a bit at the moment. A lot of my friends are
2:09.8	very excited about things going back to normal. They're talking about plans. They're talking about
2:14.6	all the different things that, you know, we can do and we haven't been able to do.
2:17.8	And while part of me is very much looking forward to the idea of going out for a meal,
2:22.8	a large part of me is apprehensive about the expectation that will be,
2:30.9	that will exist for everyone to make up for a last time and to catch up on all the things that we
2:35.8	couldn't do while we were in lockdown and to see everyone in the whole world and, you know,
2:42.0	not say no to things and, you know, the amount of things I've seen on social media that have said,
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