The Anxiety Podcast

Summary: In this episode I talk to the brilliant and brave Natasha about a recent experience she had involving anxiety while playing sports. She also talks about how she went into action to help another teammate that needed support.  Plus she reads out a moving poem that she wrote after the experience.   In this episode you will learn: Natasha’s social anxiety around sports (3:19) Constantly going through the what ifs (4:31) What Natasha started doing differently (6:30) How Natasha helped her teammate (8:00) Anticipation anxiety is far worse (10:30) Natasha reads her poem (11:58)   Read the poem here:   Dear Anxiety, This weekend you have put me through the biggest storm that I have ever had to navigate alone. Do you remember the week leading up to the event? You were not there, but it also appeared that I was not there either. My emotions appeared to be non-existent. No excitement, no nervousness, not a thing. I assumed it may be a new way of thinking or a found stoicism. As it turns out, it was not. It