Worry Podcast

Worry: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Worry from the book Ghosts of Parenting. This episode explores worry not as anxiety or overthinking, but as a lived condition of parenting, a quiet, persistent form of care that stretches across time. It looks at how worry begins as vigilance, how it follows children as they grow, and how it settles into the body as a background hum of readiness, imagination, and responsibility. The conversation names worry as love carried forward into an uncertain future, tracing how it becomes exhausting when unrecognised, and how it can soften when clearly seen. Rather than offering advice or solutions, this episode gives language to the invisible load many parents carry, revealing worry as a structural part of parenting itself, a form of holding that continues long after physical holding has ended.