Owning It: The power of decision making for anxiety

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of Owning It I introduce a skill that has massively helped my day to day anxiety, especially as I approach anxiety-inducing life events where my amygdala wants to say 'no!' and run for the hills but my prefrontal cortex knows that maybe, this is something I should do, maybe it would be good for me. It's something I wanted to talk about now as we start to emerge from lockdown and life gets back to normal and we'll be spending less time at home and have more chance of confronting the anxiety of decisions to be made. Indecision breeds fear, making a decision quells it. Thank you for listening and supporting.

Please tip the series at patreon.com/carolineforan. For more skills like this one, pick up The Confidence Kit (You Got This is the title of the same book in the USA) or Owning It. You can also pre-order my third book NAKED online now.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It.
0:01.6	If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media.
0:07.9	If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column.
0:13.0	Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorin.substack.com.
0:18.7	Thank you.
0:20.5	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to season three of owning it the anxiety podcast,
0:25.7	with me, Caroline Foran, where we are focusing on shorter solution-based topics as we ride out
0:30.9	the lockdown. Now, before I say anything more, I just want to point out that I'm 30 weeks
0:35.1	pregnant now and I'm starting to feel very breathless.
0:38.1	There's not a whole lot of room going on in my belly and chest area, what with the growing
0:43.5	bump.
0:44.5	So apologies if I sound a little bit breathless.
0:46.6	I've also just come up three flights of stairs to record this, so please forgive me.
0:53.0	This is the second and last episode of season three I will then take
0:56.6	the quickest break and I'll be right back with season four which will see me return to longer
1:00.6	episodes with guests so if you're sick of hearing from just me this whole time you're in
1:05.4	luck it's about to change there'll be lots of incredible experts in the mix and it's just
1:09.7	it's amazing how much I'm still learning even four seasons in and there'll of course be lots of incredible experts in the mix and it's just, it's amazing how much I'm still
1:11.0	learning even four seasons in. And there'll of course be lots of familiar voices or other
1:16.0	non-expert folk just like myself who will share their experiences of anxiety, which I always
1:20.9	hope provides a little bit of comfort to you listening. And I think sometimes even if all you get
1:25.1	from an episode is that you're not the only person feeling this way or that way,
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