348: My Romance With Anxiety
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the episode, host Tonya Leigh discusses the overwhelming nature of the world's constant expansion, particularly in terms of technology and information. She explains that this constant exposure can overwhelm our nervous systems, leading to feelings of chaos and anxiety. Tonya emphasizes the importance of having specific strategies and techniques to calm our nervous systems in order to avoid creating health issues. Without these strategies, it can be difficult to create what we want in our lives. Rather than labeling herself as an anxious person, Tonya reframes it as being a woman who sometimes experiences anxiety and believes that anxiety can serve a purpose in our lives.
Overall, the episode emphasizes the idea that anxiety can be embraced and used as a tool for personal growth and self-discovery. By reframing our relationship with anxiety and viewing it as a normal part of life, we can learn valuable lessons about ourselves and harness its potential for positive change.
Tonya also shares a list of things that bring her joy, emphasizing the importance of appreciating what we already have. Despite experiencing anxiety, Tonya reminds listeners that they are not alone. She also shares an exciting announcement about her work called 'A Week of Calm' which helps thousands of people create more calm in their lives. Tune in to find out more about Tonya's journey with anxiety and how she finds joy amidst it all.
In this episode:
00:01:35 Anxiety is a common experience.
00:09:45 Embrace and make peace with anxiety.
00:12:37 Embrace and accept your anxiety.
00:20:05 Movement and self-care reduce anxiety.
00:28:36 Romance and embrace your anxiety.
00:32:03 Choose calm for transformative resilience.
Quotes:
"If you want to worry less and create more, if you want to stop spending your time fearing the worst-case scenario and feeling paralyzed by your fear, then you want to join us for the week of calm."
"I needed to surrender to it. I needed to fall into the mystery of it."
"And the moment I just embrace my anxiety and not try to change it, it starts to dissipate. It doesn't have that big of a grip on me."
"I can do amazing things with anxiety."
"You will unlock a superpower that empowers you to build an extraordinary life that you love."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you have anxiety? If so, you are not alone. I've been having a romance with mine |
| 0:07.2 | for four years, and that's what we're talking about in today's episode, so let's dive in. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the School of Self-Image, where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess, |
| 0:20.3 | master life coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, my beautiful friends. How are you doing? I am sitting |
| 0:29.8 | in a bed in Lake Tahoe, listening to the waves slightly crashing on the shore |
| 0:36.7 | after a morning of pickleball. I recently wrote a list, and I highly recommend that you do this, |
| 0:43.8 | but it was a list of all of the things that bring me joy, because I do think many times we can get |
| 0:50.9 | in the quest for more, that we just don't stop and appreciate what we already have that we love |
| 0:56.8 | and enjoy. And the things on my list were so simple. It was literally things like I'm doing |
| 1:04.5 | right now. I'm with my bestie Brooke for her birthday and our families are together, and so |
| 1:10.3 | just being with the people that you love, playing games, laughing, enjoying good food, |
| 1:18.2 | good books, good conversation, really is the simple things, and I find that the more I just |
| 1:25.0 | focus on those little things that bring me joy, life just feels so much more elegant and just |
| 1:33.6 | pull a jua to vif. And even still, I have anxiety. So if you're experiencing the anxiety, my friend, |
| 1:44.8 | know that you are not alone, and that's what I want to talk about in this episode. But before I do, |
| 1:51.2 | I have something very exciting that I want to share with you. So back in 2020, |
| 1:59.8 | when the world was first hearing about the pandemic and things were shutting down, |
| 2:06.4 | I created probably some of the best work I've ever created. It was called a week of calm. |
| 2:12.9 | And we had 25,000 people go through this week where I shared specific strategies to create more |
| 2:23.4 | calm and ease in your life. And to this day, I get emails from people saying what an impact that |
| 2:32.4 | this week had on them and everything that they learned and how they keep applying it to their |
| 2:36.8 | lives to create extraordinary results. And I was meeting with my team recently and I was sharing with |
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