Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, I'm Shan Vanderbilt here with my sweet friend and co-host Ananga Severe. We've been sharing free anxiety relief podcasts since 2009.

Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Shen.

This episode is all about self-care practices for anxiety relief,

where we will take you on a deeper dive into tried and true practices that really help.

And we begin this conversation talking about the intention behind self-care and the importance of effective intentions

when we are putting ourselves at the front of the line.

This is something I've been really thinking about more over recent weeks.

The fact that sometimes our self-care isn't so intentional, it's just a casual thing. We do things and we think we're taking care of ourselves, but they might not be serving us as well as we think. They might not even be genuine self-care.

Sometimes we like to divert or numb out or understandably try and

escape our discomfort, but that doesn't fall under self-care. So I've been really reflecting on

this active self-care, intentional self-care and using it to really work for us and serve a purpose and asking what's the main goal of our self-care?

Do we want more peace of mind, less anxiety, better physical health? Are we interested in uplifting our consciousness or deepening

spiritual practices and think it can be really helpful to make a note of how we want our self-care practices to support us, especially when we're talking

about calming anxiety, if we can get some clarity around there and choose practices that are really going to support anxiety.

And when we decide what is most important to us, when we do set that intention, it's easier to follow through with the

choices that we're making because sometimes you have this person telling you

this is going to be helpful, another book telling you that is going to be helpful another book telling you that's going to be helpful

podcasters like us making suggestions

There's all this information coming at you and it can be a bit too much and well maybe I should be doing this or

maybe I should be doing that but get really still and check in with what you feel

you need and take it from there. When you do that you're going to be in a much

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