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Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life.

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

In today's episode, I want to talk about how you are so much more than your anxiety. Often we get

caught up in the feeling of this is who I am and I want to be clear today that you are not your anxiety. You are so much more than anxiety.

What does that mean to us to not be our anxiety but to just have the idea that we are living

with anxiety right now? This is a state that we are in and it is a state that will move

through us or that we will move through. It isn't who we are and it's very

important to not get our identity caught up in that idea of

I am anxiety or I am an anxious person.

You weren't born to be anxious, it isn't something you were born human, but you weren't born

anxious and we want to remember every single day it's very important that we

remember this that anxiety this state of anxiety for us is a temporary state. It is not something we will live with forever. We didn't always have it. You may think or feel like you've always had it, but I bet the

reality is that you have always been a sensitive soul or a person who felt the world more deeply.

Maybe people had sayings like you wear your heart on your sleeve or you are too sensitive but that is not living in the anxious state.

Those are things that can make us feel prone to going down the wormhole but it isn't a bad thing whatsoever. Those sensitive souls that many of us are here actually have many, many gifts, just like people who are more prone to be very physically

strong and active and fit.

They have gifts for the world too we all have something different and

sometimes our strengths can become our weaknesses in life and I think this is the case quite often with the sensitive soul who becomes anxious.

I want to talk about the panic attack for a minute because we talk about anxiety it's natural anxious feelings will

always be in our lives we will have anxious feelings throughout our life. It's just the way it is. There are things

that come up in life that will trigger our stress hormones to be released. We will get into that fight, flight, or freeze mode and we will feel

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