40: How I Overcame Paralyzing Anxiety
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Many of us struggle with the fear of the unknown. The anticipation of what would happen can often be daunting, and for those with anxiety, debilitating. Anxiety can often lead you into a spiral that you don’t know how to escape and while you may feel alone in this experience, you’re not.
Today, Robin talks about her experience with anxiety and how she overcame it. She shares logical and easily applicable tactics to help you take control of your anxiety. If you want to learn how you can distance yourself from paralyzing thoughts, join Robin in today’s conversation.
Show Highlights:
- Robin shares what her experience with anxiety has looked like
- Adjustments Robin made to overcome anxiety
- How cutting out caffeine helped Robin calm thoughts
- How alcohol can impact anxious thoughts
- Making intentional diet shifts
- Why you should start prioritizing sleep
- Being proactive in day-to-day practices
- How Pilates heightens awareness and creates calmness
- The power of prayer
- The benefits of counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy
- Tactics to communicate anxiety
Robin's favorite verses on anxiety are Philippians 4:6-7, and she hopes that it provides you with a calming peace, as well.
Links:
The Balanced Life on Instagram
5-day Pilates Strong challenge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 40, how I overcame paralyzing anxiety. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. Here on the |
| 0:18.8 | Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with |
| 0:22.3 | inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, |
| 0:28.0 | and perhaps more importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. |
| 0:33.1 | From food and exercise to work in family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help |
| 0:39.8 | you create your own sense of balance and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:47.5 | Hi friends, welcome back to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here. This is a topic that I've been |
| 0:52.8 | wanting to dive into for a while now. |
| 0:55.5 | I've touched on it over the years in blog posts or social media posts, but I haven't really done a deep dive or really shared all in one place about my experience with anxiety in my past, what I did to overcome it and where I am with that now. And I want to start by saying |
| 1:14.9 | this episode is meant to be a personal sharing of what has worked for me. So I want to make sure that I |
| 1:22.8 | make clear and acknowledge that all of us are unique. We're all in unique situations. And what worked for me may or may not work for you. But what I hope is that you'll walk away from this episode, whether you're dealing with extreme clinical anxiety or whether you just have some worries and fears sometimes that get in the way |
| 1:45.1 | of your ability to live a peaceful life. My hope is that you'll walk away from this episode with |
| 1:49.1 | some tips, some tricks, and maybe some ideas of things you could consider to take care of |
| 1:53.4 | your mental health and really feel like the healthiest version of yourself. That's what we're all |
| 1:58.1 | about here at the balanced life. You know that I am a Pilates instructor |
| 2:01.8 | and I'm the founder of the Balance Life Sisterhood, which is our online community and a place to |
| 2:06.9 | find online Pilates workouts. But along with that, it's also a whole new approach to health and |
| 2:12.5 | wellness. So it's an approach that is balanced and realistic. So it's not going to require more of you than |
| 2:18.2 | you can actually give. It's something that you can actually stick with and you're going to find |
| 2:22.2 | positivity and encouragement, not the typical competition and comparison that you find in many |
| 2:28.4 | other fitness places around the internet. And we're also going to find an approach that |
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