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Today we're going to be talking about caffeine.

March is caffeine Awareness Month, so I thought it would be a great time to open up the caffeine subject.

So March being caffeine awareness month, it's a good time for us to all take a moment and look at caffeine and our own lives and how that might be playing into your anxiety or your stress or any of these symptoms that caffeine can

actually, you know, exacerbate.

So let's get looking at that.

One of the first things we want to do is to realize that caffeine is a drug. It's, you know, nicotine's drug, caffeine's drug, some of these things are widely used and but we need to understand them for what they are.

Caffeine's a psychoactive drug that can cause or exacerbate like I said anxiety and other stress related

signs and symptoms and if you have anxiety you're all too familiar with those signs and symptoms so we don't want to be

adding to our already sensitized nervous system. Today I'm listing the downside of caffeine and later in the

month I want to take a look at some awesome substitutes that I'm really

looking forward to you considering in place of your

Caffinated drink that you might be having

Many people don't want to give up caffeine and I totally understand that. I love my coffee. I am a coffee

drinker. I do enjoy tea also, but I understand and I have a complete awareness of what it's like to give up something that's

routine and part of your everyday experience.

But that's where substitution comes in and where that can really play a part.

Like I said, we'll get into that later in the month.

Right now, today I want to talk about the downside of caffeine for people with anxiety.

Caffeine is fine in many instances and used in wisely it can actually be a wonderful thing but we often have a little bit too much

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