Welcome to Poolside Confessions, my summer series where I sit by the water, slow down, and share what I'm actually living and thinking about.

Today's confession is something I've been sitting with for a while.

I started thinking about the seasons of my life when anxiety showed up the loudest. Some of those seasons made sense from the outside – things were hard. But others were confusing. Things were going well. Success was real. And the anxiety was still there.

Sitting with all of it, something became clear: anxiety is never really about what's happening outside of you.

So what is it about? In this episode, I share what I've come to understand – and the practice that has quietly shifted how I live.

Here's what we cover:

• Why anxiety is never about your circumstances
• What always accompanied my most anxious seasons – and why I didn't see it at the time
• How broken promises to yourself create low-grade anxiety you can't quite name
• What happens when you stop trusting your intuition
• Why the scary stories you tell yourself about the future are working against you
• The practices that have built real self-trust in my life

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