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The Welcome back to the Anxiety Slear podcast.

I'm Shan Vanderleek here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga-Sivir.

Today we're discussing how to practice good self-care and calm anxiety

during the holiday season. This is big for so many of our listeners and for us as well.

When you've got travel involved, all the social anxiety, all of the things that come up,

we know that it can be triggering.

So we're going to talk about that today, what you can do to support yourself.

Welcome back, Ananga.

Hey, Shen.

It's so good to be with you again.

And it's wild to think that the holidays are right ahead of us.

This year just flew by so quickly. Yeah, for me too,

it's really gone fast. Where can we begin to best care for ourselves this time of year?

I think for me, the beginning is in knowing that we have to do that, in knowing that we have to

allow for self-care and remembering that when there's social

obligations, travelling, perhaps seeing people that you haven't seen for a while, just remembering

that that can raise nervous energy and raise anxiety. So to have a think ahead of time about what might

help us, we talked in a recent episode about having a self-care

checklist on the wall. In other episodes, we've talked about having an anxiety slayer care kit,

and I think that's really helpful for the holidays. Have a think about what you might need

to have to hand to help you feel comfortable.

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