{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/624c5076ebccf20012efeb4c/67605ba527740406d81de757?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why do we get anxious?","description":"<p>It’s a surprise (to us at least!) that we haven’t covered this topic before now.&nbsp;Anxiety has come up in lots of our podcasts, but this is the first time it’s been the main subject of one.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode we discuss the evolutionary need for anxiety, and how we experience it now, in our modern (challenging!) world.&nbsp;We talk about top-down and bottom-up ways of managing it and how we can learn to recognise the signs in our body that we are getting anxious.&nbsp;We explore strategies that can support us when we do start to get anxious so that we are not ruled by it.</p><p><br></p><p>Lucy and Adrienne can be contacted through their websites:</p><p>www.presenceofmind.life (Lucy)</p><p>www.adriennekirk.uk (Adrienne)</p>","author_name":"Adrienne Kirk and Lucy Ranger"}