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Welcome back to owning it, the anxiety podcast, with me, your host and author Caroline Forrin.

Now, today is going to be a short one, short and sweet, although maybe not very sweet depending on how your anxiety is, because the topic today or the theme I want to cover is walking you through

a panic attack in real time.

I wish I had something like this when anxiety was really bad for me.

I would try and plug into some meditation things, but I would kind of feel under pressure to meditate properly and to stop thinking.

And of course, when you're right in the middle of panic it is so hard to do

so let's go gentle let's go easy and let's start where you are right now you're in the midst of the

panic attack or an anxiety attack whatever you call it and it's not good it's not fun maybe you have your

heart racing maybe you're breathing into a paper bag or maybe it's not fun. Maybe you have your heart racing, maybe you're breathing into a paper bag,

or maybe it's just a feeling rising in your body. For me, it was like I felt like a fire was

lit inside me and not in a good way. I felt like this flood of adrenaline and cortisol just

released in my body and it filled every square inch of me

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