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The Happy New Year and welcome to season 15 of the Anxiety Slayer podcast.

Ananga and I come together weekly to share a powerful collection of conversations, techniques, and resources to help you find relief from anxiety.

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anxiety relief offerings, visit patreon.com slash anxiety slayer. Welcome back, Ananga. Happy New Year.

Hey, Shan. Happy New Year to you and to all our listeners.

This week, we're going to be talking about how having a regular anxiety calming practice can help you feel more calm and present as we step into the new year.

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Last week, we were sharing about how at this time of year we're all inclined to feel that we should make resolutions and set some goals, things we want to achieve.

And of course, social media the second, the calendar flips over to the first day of the new year.

Social media is full of adverts for diets

and gym memberships. And we've often shared on the podcast that this is a very

challenging time to make resolutions because in the northern hemisphere, we have so little

light, sunlight, daylight, energy, and we're just

not really in a place to be making big strides forward or thinking that we can make sudden and

lasting change. And I think this year, what I'm hearing from my friends is that people are even more tired of the dark and

exhausted. I'm hearing a lot of people saying they're feeling particularly fatigued this year

in this midwinter energy. Yeah, I'm hearing the same. And I've never quite understood

why January is the beginning of a new year. I always think it should be

March. Yeah. I always think it should be more in alignment with spring. And if you think about

Ayurveda and all of the ways that we've shared and talked about Ayurveda and honoring your body and honoring

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