Episode 54: The Things I Don't Talk About : Anxiety, the Dark, Food Fear and Finding My Way Through.

This episode touches on anxiety and intrusive thoughts, please be gentle with yourself as you listen.This one is personal. Really personal.Last week I had a really bad 24 hours. My front door smashed in the middle of the night and I spent the whole night awake, scared and unsafe in my own home. I took it to my Instagram stories and the response was overwhelming — so many of you reached out, so many of you were going through the exact same thing. And I knew I needed to come in here and go a little deeper.Because anxiety has been a part of my life since I was a little girl. I watched my mum have extreme panic attacks. I was calling ambulances for her as a child. And yet I have never allowed it to be a label I wear or a story I tell. I just deal with it and I get on with it.But in this episode I am getting really honest about what that actually looks like.I talk about my deep rooted fear of the dark and where I believe that comes from. My food anxiety that started two years ago and completely changed the way I eat every single day. The worst year of my life in 2017 when I could not be left alone and started having harm thoughts about my son, something I have never spoken about publicly before. The psychologist who made everything worse. And how I have built a toolkit over the years that genuinely gets me through.This episode is for every woman who is carrying something quietly. Who has never said it out loud. Who thinks she is the only one.You are not alone. And you can get through it.In this episode I cover the tools that help me most — Reiki, havening, calling in my angels, Joe Dispenza meditations — and why building your own toolkit is the most important thing you can do if anxiety is something you live with.This is one of the most vulnerable things I have shared on this podcast. Thank you for being here to receive it. 🤍Connect with Peta-Lea Brenda: Instagram: @petaleabrenda | @thewomanempireproject Website: www.peta-leabrenda.com