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It's been so long since I've said that into my microphone. I am so excited to say I'm back.

Finally, that was a long break. I know. And honestly, I wasn't sure whether I should just hang up my

podcasting coat and move on or if I still had more to say.

But with plenty of messages asking me if and when the series would return and a little bit of time to create some distance,

I realized I wasn't quite done with owning it yet.

If you're new here, you're so welcome.

And if you've been here before, thank you for sticking around.

It honestly means more than

i can say this podcast has always been a joy for me personally and professionally over the past year

i've been a lot quieter than usual and that's because i've been pouring most of my energy into

something really close to my heart and that's my new book everything Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety,

which hits shelves on April 16th. It's been a long, emotional, occasionally messy process,

and I wrote the book right beside my Pop Patrol watching 5-year-old, who we just found out

is autistic with a PDA profile, so lots of anxiety in that. That's been another huge reason for my absence. But the book

has also been one of the most meaningful things I've ever worked on and I cannot wait to share it

with my podcast listeners in particular. And this podcast feels like the perfect place to come back to

the conversation. This new series is about anxiety. Obviously, it's always laser focused on anxiety, but it's also about the bigger picture around it, the things that we carry, the systems we live inside, the bodies and the nervous systems that we're trying to understand, and what it actually looks like to live alongside anxiety, to really understand it, rather than endlessly trying to fix it or eradicate or change the way we are.

Across the series I'll be sitting down with brilliant minds, clinicians, researchers, writers,

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