This week Maryellen chats all about supporting someone with anxiety:
- Difference between the emotional brain and logical brain
- Letting them know they don’t need their anxiety
- Letting them know their anxiety is not what makes them who they are
- Anxiety is based on the past and future, not the present
- Hard for people struggling with anxiety to focus on the present and be mindful – try to bring them down to the present
- Not our job to know when someone is anxious – but we can take some hints
- Don’t engage with the anxious thoughts, wait until it calms down
- Anxiety never shows up to the party alone – what else are they struggling with?
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