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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. Today we'll be talking about your relationship

with your anxiety. Yes, we have a real your relationship and not always an enjoyable one.

One of the things you can do to get a little bit of space away

from your anxiety, just a few steps where you can actually take a look at it is to

consider your anxiety as if it were another person and that can be a tool that can be used to address anxiety when it comes

up with different thoughts or demands, as it can be pretty demanding, you can treat it as if it were a person or someone

saying those things to you.

And so having that kind of a relationship with it. To be able to

look at it that way can be really helpful. Many times when I have worked with

people they have given their anxiety a name.

Often when I've worked with the women with eating disorders,

they give their eating disorder a name.

The generic name for an eating disorder is Ed, but some people like to get creative and many people

with anxiety have come up with very specific names for their anxiety or in general terms called them Mr. Anxiety. So see if you can

look at it that way. For some people this is very helpful. I really believe that treating our anxiety in a more compassionate

manner is very helpful. One of the things that we want to remember is that being anxious or having

anxiety happen or having anxiety panic is part of our common humanity. This isn't something that is wrong with us or that we are broken.

And this is a thing that needs to be repaired.

It is a part of being human.

And I think that this is very important.

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