Take Control: Transforming Anxiety into Leadership | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

16 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Caroline Cavanagh. This content was uploaded by Caroline Cavanagh. This is a YouTube video titled "Take Control: Transforming Anxiety into Leadership | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist" (published 2025-06-16). The excerpt is a spoken talk/monologue (single speaker labeled SPEAKER A) about reframing and managing anxiety—advocating that people "give anxiety leadership rather than it leading you," and urging listeners to take ownership of difficult emotions in the same way they internalize positive emotions like happiness and love. The title indicates Caroline Cavanagh is the presenter/specialist.

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And, you know, the phrase that I use that people seem to be resonating with is giving anxiety leadership rather than it leading you. Hmm. It's that whole dog wagging the tail. Who's— is the tail wagging the dog? And yes, if anxiety is something— and it's something else that dawned on me recently that like, oh, I never realized this— is people say, I have anxiety. You know, I have depression, but you never say I have happiness, I have joy, I have love, I'm in love, I'm happy. So what we call the good emotions, you internalize, you own. But if it's a bad emotion, it's out there. I have it. I'm carrying it around in a bag on my shoulder. No, you're feeling it in the same way as you do happy. So take ownership and give it leadership. We use happy, we use love. Mm-hmm.