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Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. This week Ananga and I are responding to a question from our private Facebook group about sleep anxiety.

And the question that came in is, does anyone else experience sleep related anxiety?

A bad night's sleep for me at the moment can trigger several more nights

as I worry about not being able to sleep.

Needless to say, I then find anxiety lurking in the background all day as well.

Welcome back for another episode in Nanga.

Hey Shen.

Interesting that we're speaking about sleep right now when we have this new relationship

with cozy earth and both you and I have been struggling with a bit of sleeplessness for a while and here we have a listener who is in the in the same boat.

Yeah, I was really happy to respond to this question considering the challenges I've had over recent weeks I felt I could tune into the

frustration it can cause and that situation where when you have one bad night you can start to think oh no is it going to be the same tonight and then we start

feeling anxious about that is a good question and fortunately there's plenty we can do to support it.

The challenge between anxiety and sleep goes both ways.

Anxiety makes the mind unsettled, keeping us awake, chewing over our worries.

And on the other side, sleep deprivation can increase anxiety so we get caught in a loop

of sleeplessness and worry that can feel really hard to escape and unfortunately both sides

feed into each other and escalate the challenge.

And I can relate with that anticipation and dread as bedtime approaches because you're in that space of, oh man, I really hope that I get a good night's rest tonight.

But that anxiety makes it a little bit more difficult to relax.

If your mind is continuing in that loop of anticipatory dread,

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