Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're going to be talking about the art and practice of surrender.

So I sent out an email a few days ago, first of all, thanking you all for your response

to the last podcast episode.

I shared a lot there.

I felt super vulnerable.

I had such a vulnerability hangover the next day and it's very uncomfortable all day long.

But your response was really amazing. I heard from a lot of you saying that you really resonated with the story and that you found yourself in a similar

situation and it gave you hope that they're awesome guys out there or it made you feel

validated and going all in on somebody so I was really happy to receive that and thank you

because it was scary to put it out there and also in that email I asked the question what is the

one thing that I could help you with? What is the one solution I

could offer that would make everything else easier for you? Like, what is the biggest challenge

that you're facing and dating right now? And if you're not on my list, then you can also feel

free to answer that question to me on Instagram, which I'll link in the show notes.

But the number one response that I got from people was hands down dating anxiety.

And this actually doesn't surprise me, first of all, because I talk about it so much on this

podcast, but also because it is one of those

things where if you're struggling with dating anxiety, it affects everything else, not only

your entire dating experience, but your entire life. Like, when I felt anxious and dating, I would

literally have like stomach issues because my stomach was clenched so

much. Like my body was physically affected by the anxiety and by the end of the day I would feel

physically drained and exhausted by how stressed out I was about a dating situation.

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