Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my good friend and co-host Ananga Severe sharing our 628 episode.

Over the last couple of weeks,

we've had a slew of posts about personal health concerns

in our private Facebook group and in our inbox,

so we decided to dedicate our conversation to health anxiety today

specifically healing practices to improve your mental well-being.

Welcome back to another episode, Ananga.

Hey, Shen.

It's always good to share time with you.

And this topic is definitely on our listeners hearts and minds right now.

Where do we begin overcoming health anxiety?

I think it's a particularly difficult type of anxiety.

Our theme for this month before we switch track a little bit was going to be talking

about choices in healing and proactivity in healing. So we're really going to respond to health

anxiety in that spirit today. In the spirit of there's always something we can do to help. So I think it begins with

understanding that health anxiety comes more from the mind

than the health side of things. We might have days where we have an ache or a pain and we're in a good place. We're feeling resilient. We've got things we want to do.'re feeling purpose for we're in contact with what matters to us in our life and we might not feel so

Concerned about something or

or notice something or notice something

and the mind really jumps on it with a dialogue

and very quickly has a story of a worst case scenario which sends us into a spiral of strong anxiety

which I think many members of our group can really relate to it. So I think it really begins with understanding that it comes from our mind more than our body.

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