Owning It: Understanding and normalising anxiety
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
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Anxiety and the Fight or Flight Response
Anxiety is a real biological impact on our whole bodies. Our body doesn't need blood in our digestive system and in our stomach, it needs blood in our fingers and our toes. If you're going to punch a saber-toothed tiger in the head then you are going to need a lot of strength in your fists. Don't need it by digesting food. That's something that we do when we're relaxed - like sleeping or going for a gentle walk. So the blood drains out of our tummies, and that's where a lot of people with anxiety get real. It can sometimes be nausea, it can be digestive discomfort,it can be wind or blo
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