Confronting anxiety today for a better tomorrow

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:18.0	Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shannon Vanderbilt here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe. Before we begin our conversation today about getting beyond the grip of anxiety, we'd like to give a shout
0:25.2	out to some of our new patrons. Thank you, Mike, Nancy, and Gina for supporting our show. We're
0:32.1	incredibly grateful that you decided to become a patron.
0:35.8	And if you're interested in becoming a patron you can visit patreon.com
0:41.1	slash anxiety slayer for over 200 anxiety Patreon. of our guided relaxations with you.
0:55.0	Welcome back, Ananga. Hey Shen.
0:56.1	Today we're going to be digging into the importance
0:59.1	of confronting anxiety today for a better tomorrow.
1:05.0	And I love this because it puts us in this place of taking action.
1:11.0	And as you know, if you take action and you make a choice you can really make a
1:17.4	difference whether you're struggling with anxiety or anything in your life
1:22.0	sometimes that struggle is much more painful
1:26.0	than working with it.
1:28.0	Yeah, sometimes we come to a threshold
1:32.0	where we make the decision to seek support, seek help, educate ourselves and try and make a change and that threshold is where we just feel enough is enough this isn't a comfortable way to live this is
1:46.0	spoiling my life or areas of my life. Anxiety is particularly difficult because it gets right into our thinking and we can feel so exhausted
1:57.0	with just trying to cope with anxiety and trying to do the things we need to do each day, be a parent, a partner, go to work, all the things we need to do
2:05.7	with anxiety, dragging along or putting us in this fog of overwhelm. And it's very easy to defer getting help or seeking support,
2:16.0	making changes because we get exhausted.
2:19.0	But as you just said, Shan, struggling with anxiety is much more painful than getting help and working with it.
2:26.0	And there's so much we can do to make things feel more comfortable.
2:31.0	Some of the points that we're going to be covering in this episode today are the importance of seeking help for accountability and support moving forward, getting informed, finding out what others have done that has helped them, being mindful
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