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

Now on for today's show, how are we going to reduce our anxiety and get some better sleep one of the

things that comes up around sleep is people get very anxious when they don't get their quote usual amount of

sleep and not only does it feel frustrating when you are tossing and turning at night or laying there

staring into the dark, but the next day you carry it with you still and you consider that, oh my goodness I didn't get enough sleep.

And of course that's just another way of us feeding our anxiety. So let's take a closer look at it and see what is

actually going on and how bad is it if you don't get a full night's sleep. One of the things that people worry about is they are

concerned that their lack of sleep will cause them to go crazy because I understand that because it's kind of how it feels,

feels so uncomfortable to be laying there and you're feeding the anxiety because you're concerned about not getting enough sleep,

checking the clock, counting back how many hours you've been awake or how many hours you have left to sleep and it really feeds the

lizard brain of danger of trying to keep you safe and it's thinking and you begin to feel all of these stress

hormones raging at night and you have a sense that that you're really losing it

you're gonna go crazy but I assure you that you're not

going to go crazy lack of sleep will not cause you to go crazy. The worry and the fear, the fear that we feel around our sleep produces those stress

hormones and it stimulates our alertness because basically that primal brain that

amigdala is about keeping you safe and so if you are worried and fearful you're stimulated, and you're becoming more and more alert.

So we want to stay away from that, if we can, away from the worry and the fear about not getting enough sleep.

You know, lack of sleep does cause stress on our body.

Obviously, if our stress hormones are being stimulated, this is a stress on our

body, but we don't need to worry about it. Our body is amazing, it's extremely resilient, and it knows how to handle things like this.

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