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Hey Shan.

This week on the podcast, we're exploring how you can be more gentle

with yourself when living with stress and anxiety,

choosing that gentle path.

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What does it mean to choose the gentle path when living with anxiety?

I was inspired to talk about this by a quote I saw from one of my favorite authors,

Catherine May, who made the point that we can't heal by force.

And I think sometimes with anxiety we have this feeling and these thoughts that, know were a burden we're not operating efficiently

It's affecting our family it's affecting our work and then other anxieties come that people are going to get

Sick of us or we might lose our job and we just want it to stop.

Right.

So then we might think, you know, if I could take something or do something to just make it stop,

but it really doesn't work like that but gentleness is a great

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