Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, I'm Shan Vanderbilt, here today with my wonderful friend and co-host

Ananga Civier. Welcome back Ananga. Hey Shen. Today we're responding to a question from one of our listeners, can the weather make my anxiety worse?

We'll also be talking about the season that's most challenging for anxiety and how to care for yourself so you can pass through it peacefully with as much ease and grace as possible. I know you have a story to share about food and how this kind of ties

into our conversation today and especially salads. The salad story. Yeah, this is something we heard

from a listener some years ago now who wrote in to ask us, can salad and make my anxiety worse.

She noticed that if she was eating salad

for a few days in a row, her anxiety definitely increased.

And the answer is yes.

And I love that question coming in because so often we feel like what now?

What's making me anxious now? You know it can it really be the weather?

We get a lot of traffic come to our

website asking the question can the weather make my anxiety worse because it's

something people are asking because they're experiencing it.

And of course, when we're living with others

and we have other friends that don't necessarily

understand the experience of anxiety,

it can just feel like another thing that can come back not empathetically you know it's the weather now it's

your salad now but Ira Vader India's ancient science of life gives incredible insight into the fact that this is true and why it's true and what we can do about it to help ourselves feel more balanced, more grounded and more calm.

The clue from salad is that it contains the qualities of the Vata Dusha, the Vata type.

Iravader teaches that like increases like and opposites, balance.

So Vutter is dry, light, cold, rough. That salad.

Mm-hmm.

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