Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Sign up for Owning It Real Time HERE 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 experienc...

Sign up to Owning It Real Time HERE 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...

Sign up and access this episode within Owning It Real Time HERE . This was the original real time panic attack rescue episode that inspired the Owning It Real Time series. 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...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE 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...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE 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 spon...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE 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 settin...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE 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...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE 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. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxie...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Waking up with anxiety first thing in the morning is a horrible feeling, but it makes a lot of sense when you understand the hormones at play. In this specific audio guide, I walk you through the experience of morning anxiety as it's happening, helping to set you up for a calmer day. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Overwhelmed on a bus? Panicked at a concert? Plug in your earphones and find some real time reassurance with this audio guide. The aim is to help you in the moment, as well as helping you move beyond it and how to approach the next time you find yourself in a similar situation. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known About...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Socially anxious? This is the Owning It Real Time audio guide for you where host Caroline Foran talks through what social anxiety feels like, why we feel it, how normal it is and offers ways to soothe the listener in the aftermath of a socially anxious or experience as well as prepping you ahead of one. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everyth...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE In this audio guide as part of Owning It Real Time, I step through the feelings of anxiety as or after you scroll on social media as well as consuming the news in high volume via your smart phone. There are many reasons why this can make us feel anxious but here I hone in on our threat response being activated by negative news and the impacts of social comparison. T...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE This guide is for a panic attack that can strike you whenever, wherever, the situation here is less specific, but how you approach it - or how I would always have approached it, once I better understood how to get through it, is specific. Own your panic attack as it's happening with Owning It Real Time, where I walk you through the anxiety in the moment. With unders...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Anxiety at night is very different to our experience of anxiety in the middle of the day and in this audio guide, I explain why. From the pressure to get back to sleep and the spiralling thoughts about things you need to do or are worried about, it can be tricky to move beyond, but this Owning It Real Time track will be a huge help. Order yourself (or for a friend)...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE In this Owning It Real Time audio guide, I step through the experience of anxiety at the end of the day, before you go to bed. There are a few factors at play here that give rise to anxiety and understanding them before soothing the body can really help to settle me down for a rest. I hope it will be the same for you. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my ne...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE This episode of Owning It explores the subject of grief, with my dear friend Robyn Byrne. Having lost her mother almost a year ago now, Robyn teaches me about anxiety in relation to grief, how it very much can be a feature of grief (when you may not necessarily suspect it) and how it manifests for her, as well as how she's moving through it one day at a time. I hope...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE This is a must listen for parents of teens, teens themselves and anyone who experienced anxiety when they were a teenager. I am joined by psychologist Dr Aoife Durcan ( @HighlySensitivePsychologist ) as she helps me better understand the teenage brain, our window of tolerance, how it might be for a more sensitive child growing into their teenage years, how parents c...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Time for another solo episode - don't worry, I haven't given up on guests - and this time I am discussing the very real impact that social media - Instagram in particular - is having on my daily anxiety at the moment. From social comparison to feelings of not doing enough or imposter syndrome, I have come to the conclusion that social media might be the main fuel be...

Access Owning It Real Time HERE Under the weather? Cold or flu? Being physically unwell with a seasonal sickness that we are all experiencing a lot of as winter sets in can be such a huge vulnerability factor that gives rise to more feelings of anxiety. In this solo episode I share my experience being unwell and how my anxiety relates, how it impacts me and what I do to own it as and when it happe...

Welcome to Owning It: Real Time. A series of situation specific audio guides to help you move through your most anxious moments as and when they happen for you. From anxiety first thing in the morning to the inconvenience of it hitting you at work, before a social interaction or when you're stuck in a crowded space, I've got you. Volume 1 launches in January. Sign up now for a pre-sale discou...

Not sure how to communicate your anxiety at work? To your boss? Anxious about how to manage your anxiety when you are the leader and you don't want to appear unprofessional? Navigating mental health at work can be tricky and bring about anxiety in itself. This is a really necessary episode of Owning It where executive coach Lucy Gernon helps us to figure out how best to approach these situations i...

 Time to talk about therapy again. This is the third episode of Owning It The Anxiety Podcast in which I explore therapy, this time supported by Better Help Online Therapy (more information on that below). With the help of the wonderfully articulate Haesue Jo - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the Bay Area, California,  and Head of Clinical Operations at Better...

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 j...

This episode of @ owningitpodcast is specific to those of us struggling with anxiety as we parent our kids. Namely, it's about how to regulate yourself so that you can help to regulate your child when their emotions are so erratic (which they are, naturally, at such a young age). How to handle tantrums, meltdowns, hard days and irrational toddlers without being left reeling in stress and anxiety y...

A short and sweet deep dive into values as the unlikely, forgotten and under-utilised antidote for quelling our collective anxiety. What should your values be? How do you set them? Why do your values matter? How do they relate to anxiety? Learn here. Follow me on @ owningitpodcast for more. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety: A Roadmap...