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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Support for calming anxiety and hyper vigilance

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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645: This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast we’re discussing how you can calm anxiety with tips for how to support your nervous system when you’re feeling hyper vigilant, or on “red alert.” Today’s Anxiety Slayer podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Give it a try and see why over 3 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Special offer for Anxiety Slayer listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/slayer

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0:00.0

This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're discussing how you can calm anxiety with tips for how to support your nervous system when you're feeling hyper-vigilant.

0:22.0

Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer.

0:24.0

I'm Shan Banderley here with my good friend and co-host in Angasivir,

0:28.8

producing free podcasts for you since 2009.

0:34.0

Welcome back, Ananga.

0:36.0

Hey Shen.

0:38.0

2009, sometimes I still scratch my head and go, wow.

0:42.0

We've been showing up doing this work together for a while. Yeah, I'm so

0:48.1

grateful to have this partnership with you. Me too. And another great topic about our nervous system and calming anxiety, discussing hyper-vigilance

1:00.1

and how so many who suffer with anxiety and PTSD and stress are very hyper-vigilant.

1:10.0

Yeah, and I guess most people know what hypervigilant means, but maybe we should just give a little introduction as we go in.

1:19.0

So hyper-vigilance is when we feel on red alert, constantly on red alert, checking, scanning, we don't feel particularly

1:27.3

safe, we feel unsettled and we're in that

1:33.6

vigilant state where we're seeing potential danger or problems around us all the time.

1:39.6

Very exhausting, high anxiety, uncomfortable experience often comes as a result of trauma or

1:51.8

PTSD and now as is being thankfully discussed more complex post-traumatic

2:00.2

stress disorder and as many experts in the field that we follow share and we

2:06.3

concur with it's not a disorder it's a natural response to intense stress but that's the label that's used.

2:18.0

And I can relate to this feeling and I think you can as well.

2:23.0

And while we've done lows and loads of work

2:27.0

to calm our nervous systems,

2:30.0

there are still times when I can go into that red alert state or into that hypervigilant place and now I just am aware of it so I can do something about it much quicker than in days past.

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