If you are not alone, in fact, anxiety impacts over 40 million of us in the US alone,

myself included. That's over 19% of the population.

And get this, women are twice as likely to be affected.

So in this video, I'm going to share five evidence-based tools

that can help you feel better fast.

I call this my 5S toolkit. Let's get into it.

Tool number one, self-talk. So nine times out of ten, when a wave of anxiety hits me,

I'm usually alone and out in public it is not

convenient it is not fun all of my senses get flooded and sometimes it feels

really scary then the first thing that I do when that happens is I start talking to myself out loud.

Now it's usually in a soft whisper like barely under my breath, but I can hear it and I just say a simple phrase again and again so I say Marie you're okay you're okay you are okay

Marie you are okay right now you're going to be okay and you are okay right now. You're going to be okay and you are okay. So I just say

riffs on that simple little phrase on that self-talk on repeat until I can either get myself home or I can get into someplace quiet that's private.

And on the rare occasions that I get an anxiety attack at home, I go straight to my bathroom, I close the door, I look in the mirror, and I say those same

phrases again and again to myself out loud. And I know that this might sound really silly, but for me it works wonders.

Turns out that there's research that shows that self-talk when you do it in the third person,

meaning you're saying your name to yourself, it can

actually be a very effective method for emotional self-regulation that can reduce anxiety.

So one suggestion for you to consider. Make sure that your

self-talk is compassionate and encouraging. I like to think about it this way. When I

get flooded with anxiety, I just instantly surrender to what I believe

is my higher self, my divine self. I just allow her to take over and run the show and

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