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

In today's episode, I want to talk about emotions, our anxiety, and our common humanity.

This is going to be a little bit of a meditation as we go along because it's important for us to be able to actually sit with and see

our emotions and our anxiety around either the emotions or the emotions that came up because of our

anxiety and the understanding that we are all together in this. No matter where you are on the spectrum of how severe or

with the place you are at right now as far as coming out of your anxiety panic, but we are all together in feeling emotions

and feeling the discomfort of those.

And so I wanted to actually start today with the quote. I would like to read

it again as usual at the end of the podcast, but I think today I will also start with it.

And this quote is from Kristen Neff.

She says,

When we're in touch with our common humanity, we remember that feelings of inadequacy and disappointment are universal.

This is what distinguishes self-compassion from self-pity.

While self-pity says, Poor me!

Self-compassion recognizes suffering is part of the shared human experience.

The pain I feel in difficult times is the same pain that you feel in difficult times. The triggers are different, the

circumstances are different, the degree of pain is different, but the basic

experience is the same. And again that was from Kristen Neff.

So let's get on with how we can deal with and bring the light of our common humanity to our emotions, to our anxiety.

This is a place where we practice non-judgment.

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