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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to Owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. Now, before we get on with this week's episode, I have a little

bit of housework to do. I'm always encouraging listeners to buy the books, if they haven't yet come across

them, and I will share the link for the books in the podcast description box as always, but this is something new.

So I have decided to create a Patreon page, maybe it's pronounced Patreon, I don't really know,

so that fans of the podcast can show their support with a couple of quid per month if they so wish.

It's not at all a requirement. I don't want to put the series behind a paywall because I really do believe that it's incredibly important that mental health related content be accessible to everyone. That being said, it is a huge

amount of work and energy and so far, unfortunately, it has yet to become a viable source of income

for me and I've got to pay my bills. I'd be doing it for almost a year now and I really want to keep

it going, so I've decided to start valuing myself which I am notoriously bad at doing by creating this owning a tip jar via

Patreon where you can show your support. As I said, there is no obligation to become a patron,

but if you are finding the series really helpful, if it's making a huge difference for you

and you can spare the couple of euro or dollars or pound or wherever in the world you're listening from, it would be greatly appreciated. You can become a patron by going to www.patron.com

forward slash Caroline Foreign. I've said Patreon wrong again, haven't I? Patreon. So that is that,

and thank you so much in advance. I am very excited about this episode. You're going to learn a

huge amount about the brain and how seemingly innocuous events can trigger anxiety for us. And more specifically,

you'll gain an insight into a series of alternative therapies from hypnotherapy to a groundbreaking

treatment known as havening and how they might be helpful for you and your experience of anxiety.

I'm joined by Stephen Travers, psychologist and advanced hypnotherapist, and he has so many other

letters after his name.

I will definitely get them wrong, so I will just let him do the talking.

Stephen, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast, on owning it.

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