203 The Anxiety Episode

We've been dealing with a pandemic for several years now (we recently passed 1 million COVID-related deaths here in the US alone) and we've been feeling the impacts of the health and safety risks as well as the isolation. Add to that the continuing incidents of gun violence, race-based attacks, attacks on women's rights, and so much more, and we have a lot of very real reasons to feel anxiety. So, the question becomes: What do we do about it?

I have years of expertise in women's happiness and an Ivy League degree in Positive Psychology (the scientific study of human flourishing). And I also struggle with anxiety. I always have. If you're looking for that one thing you can do to alleviate your anxiety, you're going to be disappointed, because there isn't one thing that works for everyone. We're just too complex for that. However, I have a toolkit of strategies that I use to manage my own anxiety on a regular basis, and in today's episode I'm going to share my tools with you:

• I get support.
• I surround myself with sisterhood.
• I allow myself to feel and express my emotions instead of suppressing them.
• I reframe how I think about my own anxiety.
• I practice acceptance.
• I ground in and meditate.
• I move my body.
• I use my journal (you'll have to listen to find out how).
• One of my favortie ways to reframe: "What else is true?"
• Self-touch
• Taking a bath

I also get very personal in talking about how my own anxiety manifests itself, and what it feels like.

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