Creating calm in the darker months

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

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re reflecting on what you can do to create more peace and calm during the winter time. In the northern hemisphere, December can be dark and busy and we often receive questions from our listeners about how to support their mind through the darker months. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. For most of you, the holiday season is a time for enjoying family and friends, gift giving and enjoying special treats. Whether or not your family gives gifts during the holidays, you get to choose what you give to yourself. Whether it’s by starting therapy or treating yourself to a day of complete rest– remember to give yourself some love this holiday season. Therapy is helpful for how to set boundaries and look after yourself. It empowers you to be the best version of yourself. If you’re thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. In the season of giving, give yourself what YOU need – with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/slayer today to get 10% off your first month.

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0:20.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my brilliant friend and co-host Ananga Severe. This week on the podcast, we're reflecting on what you can do to create more peace and calm during the winter time.
0:26.8	In the northern hemisphere, December can be dark and busy and we often receive questions from our listeners about how to support their mind
0:36.3	through the darker months and I know it's been a challenge for us over the years but we've got some really good
0:41.3	ideas for you and some tried and true tips and
0:44.9	suggestions that have worked for us. Welcome back Ananga.
0:48.9	Hey Shen.
0:49.9	Podcast number 671.
0:55.0	Sometimes I write those numbers down and I'm just like, wow, look at us go.
1:01.0	Coming up 700. Yeah, yeah. And just a quick shout out to everyone who supported us and sent us good wishes and invested in our online courses for our anniversary sale.
1:13.9	We really appreciate it so much.
1:16.4	And to all of our patrons, thank you for continuing
1:19.4	to support the podcast.
1:21.8	Yeah, big thanks.
1:23.0	Today we're talking about how to create calm in the darker months.
1:30.8	And that really begins with protecting yourself from expectations.
1:37.0	Yeah, it can feel quite an overwhelming time, I think.
1:41.0	The energy of the dark months cause us to slow down. I read this beautiful book called
1:45.6	wintering by an author called Catherine May and she really explains and shares beautifully this thing that we're drawn to do in the winter, we don't really
1:55.6	hibernate but we slow down and we need to do things differently, but as we often share on the
2:00.9	podcast, there's this expectation in the West to be the same 24-7 all year round.
2:07.8	We live under artificial lighting, we've got the heating,
2:10.8	we've got the air gone in the summer, and it is supposed to be the same everything's
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