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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to another episode

of owning it, the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forring. We are now in season four, and something

that I've yet really dive into in any of this season so far, is the anxiety surrounding a breakup.

And that's something that for so many of us, if not all of us, is something that we will experience

at some point in our lifetime.

So maybe it's a split from your first love, that was my experience, or maybe, as is the case for my guest here, who is journalist and author Leodon Hines,

it's a separation from your husband or partner with whom you share children, or someone with whom you've just built a life that you expected to see continue on indefinitely. It's a very tangible anxiety, that realization that you need to either remove yourself

from the relationship or maybe you're perfectly happy to stay in it, but then you face the anxiety

of learning that your partner wants out. And suddenly, whatever way it came to be, your whole life

stretching on in front of you looks incredibly different and

absolutely terrifying. Here, Leah, who has written an incredible book called How to Fall Apart,

she shares her story, how she copped with the anxiety that went along with the various stages

of this major life upheaval and how she's doing now. I don't doubt that this will resonate

with a lot of you and I really hope that you find a comforting whether you are in the middle of a breakup or contemplating a breakup or are coming

out the other side of it. I just think for anyone ever having gone through a breakup this will

speak to you. And just a note here to say that you'll have to forgive me somewhat for a slight

dip in audio quality. We were in the depths of lockdown when recording

and I had builders all throughout the house drilling what felt like through my skull but it was

very, very hard to get the perfect audio conditions and you might also hear Leah's little girl

in the background of points too. She was being homeschooled but look such is the beauty of our

vulnerable lives and it's really about the content so hopefully you will forgive me. Thanks as always for tuning in. Thank you for supporting me on www.

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