Remember when the monsters under our beds were the scariest thing in our lives? We'd pull the covers over our heads and hope they'd go away. Turns out, adulthood didn't make the monsters disappear -they just got better at hiding. These days, they show up as anxiety, self doubt, and that 2:00 a.m. worry that you're somehow getting life wrong. In this episode, I'm talking about my own run-in with the monsters in my head - the journey to my anxiety diagnosis, the stories behind it, and what it looks like to stop running from fear and start facing it with compassion (and maybe a little humor).