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This week on Owning It I am joined by a former uni classmate of mine, Yvonne Keane (now an incredible photographer) who shares with me her experience of being diagnosed with bipolar. The anxiety and depression that preceded the diagnosis for Yvonne, what life with bipolar is like for her, a mother of one, the anxiety around getting such a diagnosis and how we can better support those in our lives who have been diagnosed with this illness (formerly referred to as 'manic depression'). I am very grateful to Yvonne for highlighting such an important topic, being so vulnerable and open with me and educating me on something that's not often talked about.

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For this episode I am joined by author of The Career Change Guide Rachel Schofield to talk about career change anxiety. We are anxious about change but there's rarely as significant a life change we're all likely to make as when we change up our work. Maybe you're wanting an entire overhaul in a new direction or you're wanting to start that business you've always thought would be worth doing but fear and anxiety have held you back. Here, Rachel answers your questions as well as talking through her 5 steps to figuring out what to do. The book is available now and widely stocked.

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In this episode of Owning It, I am joined by the lovely Rosanna Davison, former Miss World, best-selling author, nutritionist, mother and fertility spokesperson. She shares her incredible journey of fertility with me from the perspective of anxiety. The anxiety of not knowing if you'll get pregnant, the anxiety of looking for a reason as to why you're experiencing miscarriages, the anxiety of not knowing how your future will look and coming to terms with possibly never arriving at that happy ending. She also shares her experience of anxiety through the surrogacy journey and how she takes care of her general day to day anxiety since becoming a mother.

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In this episode I am joined by behavioural specialist expert Padraig Walsh to understanding our hot brain versus our cold brain and how we move from one to the other. It's a really helpful framework for understanding anxiety and there's lots more in here about CBT, as well as several practical tools you can apply right away.

Padraig works with Actualise Academy.

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This was the original real time panic attack rescue episode that inspired the Owning It Real Time series.

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Republishing one from the archives as it is one of my most listened to, and therefore most helpful episodes of all time.

I think this might be the most insightful and informative episode I've shared to date where Dr Michael Keane, Behavioural Neuroscientist and founder of actualise.ie, talks me through exactly how our brain functions when it comes to anxiety and how we are best posed to take back control. I've never had someone explain how our brains work and how anxiety can happen in the brain in as digestible a way as Dr Keane does here. We talk about everything from the neuroscience stance on mindfulness, the power of language to enhance or reduce our feelings of anxiety, how we can strengthen our prefrontal cortex to down regulate the limbic system and how incredibly normal it is that we are all walking around this world feeling a little bit anxious. If I had heard this conversation five years ago I would have been so incredibly reassured; I hope it empowers you to know that you absolutely can OWN IT.

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Let me introduce you to Owning It Real Time, helping you own your anxiety precisely as it's happening for you, across 10 different scenarios. Learn what the new series involves, how it helps and enjoy a taster of one of the audio guides for free. Owning It Real Time features 10 situation specific audio guides. Never more than 10 minutes long and entirely ad and sponsorship free, you can sign up here for a one time payment of 10 euro on Acast Plus and then simply click to add it to your regular podcasting feed, whatever that is (I personally use Apple Podcasts). Sign up here: https://plus.acast.com/s/owningittheanxietypodcast. Follow me on @OwningItPodcast on Instagram for more.

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In this Owning It Real Time audio guide, I step through the experience of a surge of overwhelm/anxiety at work which can feel doubly anxiety inducing for the very fact that you're at work. While you can't quite crawl under your duvet, there are things we can do together to help you find some calm, diffusing the anxiety, meeting yourself where you're at before setting you up to return to work feeling a little more at ease.

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In this audio guide I walk through the specific scenario of feeling anxious right before you do something that scares you, be it public speaking, giving a speech or lots of other scenarios where this would apply. I stick with the example of public speaking but it will be relevant to anything where there is a performance involved. Move through that pre event anxiety with me and turn it into your motivation.

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What do you do when you get hit with the fear of the fear? In this audio guide, I try to help you neutralise the fear that anxiety will always hold you back or define your life. We work on shifting your perception of anxiety and your ideas of what it means to overcome it.

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