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Hello, dear listener, and welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast with me Caroline Forin, author of Owning It and the Confidence Kit, and my third book, which will be out in May

of this year. There'll be lots more to come on that

soon. I'm really excited to share it with you guys and I'll do some teasers on the podcast for you

guys to hear before anyone else does. But for now, we are well into season two of owning it the

podcast and I hope that you're finding a series helpful so far. I was just thinking to myself last week,

what a difference it would have made for me to have something like this when I was feeling really

bad and how much power and strength there is in knowing that so many people are going through

a similar thing. And I can only tell you the amount of messages I get, and I'm so grateful for them

from people saying what you're describing is exactly what I've been through or what I'm going through, and it

makes me feel so less alone. And I just think back to how unbelievably alone I felt and how like

an alien I felt back in 2014. So you're not alone. If you're listening and you're feeling

lost, you're not alone. I'm right there and you're feeling lost, you're not alone.

I'm right there with you.

And everyone who's listening is right there with you.

So this week, it's just me.

I just wanted to do a little solo episode as I wanted to take some time out

to consider some of the less obvious drivers of anxiety

that, again, I know had I been aware of them

back when I was feeling the full weight

of it in 2014-2015 I think things would have been an awful lot easier to handle.

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