When anxiety comes after the trauma: Debbie's story
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we go through something that you think would bring a huge amount of anxiety down on top of us, but it doesn't hit us until we're out the other side. That's exactly what happened for Deborah Somorin. Here she shares her story - documented in her new book Believing In Me - about being taken into care at the age of 11, becoming homeless and pregnant and welcoming her baby boy when she was just 14 years of age. Despite the adversity she faced, Debbie went on to achieve incredible things and it wasn't until she was living a 'normal' life that anxiety eventually reared its head, along with imposter syndrome. Hear her compelling story on Owning It and read her book available now. Follow me on @OwningItPodcast for more.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. |
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| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to Owning It the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the |
| 0:22.9 | anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. I'm going to keep today's intro super short and sweet because |
| 0:28.1 | I have a lot of drilling and hammering and just bulldozing going on around me with construction |
| 0:33.5 | in my area, which cannot be avoided as I'm not in studio. But anyway, time to tune out of that |
| 0:39.9 | and tune into an incredible woman, Deborah Someran, author of Believing in Me. Here she shares |
| 0:44.9 | her incredible story of triumphant over adversity and really interestingly the anxiety she |
| 0:50.8 | experienced only when she came out the other side of all of that hardship. |
| 0:56.0 | Oftentimes, our body really holds it together for us when we're in a very, very stressful |
| 1:00.7 | situation and when we're safe, a space opens up and then the anxiety tends to rise up and |
| 1:06.2 | say, hey, we need to process this. That's exactly what happened for Deborah and her book is out now. |
| 1:11.0 | It's incredible. She's an amazing woman and I hope you find the story as essential as I did to listen to. |
| 1:24.3 | Debbie Someran, I am so thrilled to have you as a guest on owning it the Anxiety podcast. First of all, welcome. |
| 1:31.0 | Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Oh my God. Well, |
| 1:35.1 | it's such an honor. I suppose for context, I want to rewind. We actually met on the street in Dublin |
| 1:42.9 | one time when I was toddling home, got tapped on the |
| 1:47.1 | shoulder, turned around, see this beautiful woman standing before me saying that you had listened |
| 1:52.3 | to my podcast or you had read the book and you just wanted to say hi. And that was an amazing moment |
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