Trauma: Anxiety after the Storm

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For this episode I am joined by a friend, Simone Gannon (also known as Simone Scribes on Instagram). She's big on social media for her skincare expertise and has amassed a huge following. Simone recently took to Instagram to share something she wouldn't normally: chats about her experience of crippling anxiety that saw her in and out of hospital with symptoms of a suspected stroke. Here she shares her story with me, as she is passionate too about normalising anxiety and also talking about it while we are still in the thick of it. Her experience of anxiety follows a traumatic experience she had involving her son. As is very common, when we experience something really tough, we are filled with adrenaline and our bodies have our backs while we 'get through' what needs to be done. When the dust settles, the anxiety can swoop in and force us to process things we hadn't yet addressed. This is Simone's story and I hope it's of some comfort to you those of you listening who have been in similar situations.

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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.
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0:23.8	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline
0:27.9	Forin. This week my guest is Simone Gannon. She's known on Instagram as Simone Scribes.
0:32.7	She is a beauty and skincare enthusiast and writer and photographer. She's brilliant.
0:37.3	We're not talking about
0:38.0	skincare here though. We are talking about anxiety that she experienced as the result of a really
0:42.8	significant trauma. Now, so often my focus is on anxiety that can happen as a result of just
0:47.4	daily stress that builds up and up and up. For a lot of people though, it will stem from a very
0:52.2	traumatic experience, something really isolated that sets in motion, a chain of events that leads you to a lot of people though, it will stem from a very traumatic experience, something really
0:54.4	isolated that sets in motion, a chain of events that leads you to a point of crippling anxiety.
0:59.5	For Simone, it was incredibly debilitating.
1:02.3	It got to a point where things were very bad, and she is slowly but surely getting herself
1:05.9	back to a point of wellness again today.
1:08.0	And I'm so grateful to Simone for sharing her story with me here.
1:11.7	So if you or anyone you know have been through something traumatic, be mindful of the fact that sometimes
1:16.2	our bodies can take a while to show up with this anxiety. It's like we have to process what
1:22.4	happened. But at the time when it's happening, we feel like we're okay and we're coping because
1:26.3	your body is in fight or flight mode. Your body has your back. Then when there's space opens up when
1:31.6	the event has passed and things maybe start to settle down, that's when we can often find that
1:36.3	these anxious feelings and symptoms start rushing in. And for some people, they can knock you
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