This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're discussing a listener question about how you can address choices that lead to self-sabotage and learn to look after yourself with more love and compassion.

Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer.

I'm Shan Banderleak here with my wonderful friend

and co-host Ananga, Severe. Hey Ananga. Hey Shen, it's good to be with you again for another episode.

Here's the question that we received this week.

Does anyone else often feel like their own worst enemy? I've been

in a bad loop lately and know the things I need to do in order to break that loop,

yet I won't allow myself to do them. Do you have any tips? They would be greatly appreciated.

And man, can I relate with this as I'm sure you can Ananga and so many of our

listeners when we just know what to do but don't always have the energy or that

next bit of oomph to get it done.

Yeah, I like it that you mentioned to energy and oomph, I think that really often is part of the challenge.

I know for myself where I feel stuck and I feel like I'm not serving myself as well as I might often it comes when I've been unwell or low in energy,

low in enthusiasm.

Yeah, that can often be part of the picture,

but I think it's something we can all relate to

and certainly our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy that comes from the teachings of the

Bogova Gita and it's really something to think about and as we've often discussed on the podcast its tendency is to be our worst enemy left unchecked.

So yeah, we need energy, support and enthusiasm to reset our sales and come away from that kind of it's a very sticky

state isn't it we can feel really stuck in those states. A good place to begin is to identify yourself sabotaging behaviors. We all have

them and it's just a matter of becoming aware of the specific ways in which you self sabotage.

It could be procrastination, putting things off, negative self-talk,

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