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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, we'll be talking about four different steps that you can take to avoid anxiety by being really

aware of your expectations. Expectations, right? They, we've been warned about them in our

lives many times, but sometimes it's easy to fall back into the trap of having a lot of expectations. So let's take a look at

them today in ways that we can really tamp down visiting the wormhole as we would say and really getting into anxious states through our expectations.

You know, it's not so much that expectations are a bad thing but when we set our

expectations so high and we begin to fall into the big trap because we can't be perfect

because we can't be perfect no one's perfect you won't be perfect, I'm not perfect, and as soon as we can hold that and accept

it, we can begin to keep a little bit lower expectations and not drive ourselves to the brink of anxious feelings.

We have all been taught in our culture to have high expectations.

It's a way of ensuring that people do their best.

No harm is really meant, but sometimes we take these things to an extreme that harm does

happen when you begin to feel trapped by these expectations, either that you have on yourself or that other people

have of you, you need to release them because these expectations, especially if they're based on things that are not

important to you such as following and keeping up with the Joneses.

Like if you are living a life where you are keeping

toe to toe with what everybody around you is doing and that you just expect that you will do the same or better

than these people around you.

You may be setting your expectations to a place that maybe is not quite right for you in a number of different ways.

We need to be flexible. You know, here Hawaii there are a lot of areas where the bamboo has

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