Occasional anxiety (not clinical anxiety) is a normal part of life. All those “What ifs?” creep into our brains and send us into a place of worry, fear and uncertainty. But what if anxiety didn’t have to result in feeling out of control of your life? What if it no longer caused you to miss out on things in the present? What if you could actually learn to tame anxiety and reduce it?
I know it may be hard to believe but taming anxiety is possible. I won’t say easy, but possible. In this episode, I offer some ideas for how to hold out anxiety and observe it for what it is, and then reframe it. As you listen, I especially want to emphasize this: anxiety is often problem solving, just without the actual solving part. The good news is, you can do something about it.
“As soon as you recognize you’re feeling anxious, that’s really the first step... It sounds simple but yet it’s really incredibly powerful when you can recognize it and name it… As soon as you start to be the observer of what you’re feeling, you step out of the feeling a little.... You detach a little bit from it… It actually almost immediately makes me feel better.” – Dr. Sara Dill
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