Owning your anxiety this Christmas

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Christmas can be a time of high anxiety. In this solo episode I talk through my approach to this time of year and how Covid has given us an opportunity to practise setting boundaries and putting our needs first. Episode includes my coping mechanism and mindset swaps that makes Christmas a far more enjoyable experience.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It. 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. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you.
0:20.2	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to this in-between season's
0:24.2	episode of Owning It, the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin, I am the author of three books you may have
0:31.0	heard of owning it, the confidence kit, and my latest book was naked. And that was all about the power
0:35.8	of vulnerability. So I am, I'm gearing up now to share
0:39.4	season seven with you. I've got lots of episodes lined up. It's packed with lots of world-renowned
0:44.3	experts who help shed light on different topics and different things that we experience with anxiety.
0:50.4	Familiar voices, of course, who just share their experience of anxiety with me and their story,
0:55.3	their background and how they cope. And then a few solo episodes where I tackle one specific
0:59.9	topic. I try to ensure that as many episodes as possible are always kind of evergreen,
1:06.1	meaning that they will still be relevant to someone who finds them in a few years' time,
1:10.7	as relevant as they
1:11.6	are today, or the day that I publish them. For now, though, I'm going to break that pattern
1:15.9	and offer up a short solo episode on coping with anxiety around the holidays, or as we say here
1:24.0	in Ireland and the UK, in Christmas. The song, we all know, says it's the most
1:29.0	wonderful time of the year, but for a lot of us, it's really not. Some people are enduring
1:34.8	loss, heartache, maybe you've had a breakup, trauma, financial stress, isolation, loneliness.
1:41.6	The list goes on. And I think Christmas has this ability to just magnify whatever
1:47.0	you're experiencing. So if it's good, Christmas is amazing. If it's bad, it's 10 times worse.
1:51.8	Then there's some of us who are, you know, doing completely fine day to day, but we just generally
1:55.7	find the whole idea of Christmas to be quite a lot. The pressure, the expectation, the trying to see as many people as we can
2:02.6	before December 25th, as if the measure of your relationship will depend somehow on this exact timeline,
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