Then Vs Now: How Anxiety Has Changed For Me

About this episode

Caroline Foran reflects on her journey with anxiety from childhood to the present, discussing the challenges of parenting and the progress she has made.

Solo episode this week to take pause as the book launches. In this reflective episode I revisit the anxiety that punctuated my life since childhood, compare how it was when it was all consuming to how it can appear these days, what it really means to overcome anxiety and why having a hard time now in this chapter of parenting does not mean I undo any of how far I have come with myself. Please please please treat either yourself or someone you love to the new book, out now, linked below. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety: A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm and Back to Yourself here Follow me on Instagram @CarolineForan and @OwningItPodcas t, on Tik Tok here Subscribe to my weekly Substack here (not always anxiety related, often parenting related) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/owningittheanxietypodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: @CarolineForan

Topics covered

• anxiety
• parenting
• mental health
• self-reflection

Keywords

• book launch
• overcoming anxiety
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Tik Tok, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety: A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm and Back to Yourself

Books & works: Everything I Wish I'd Known, A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm, Substack

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