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

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about anxiety triggers, the gap, and your reactions. In

Vicky Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning, which is an excellent book if you haven't already read it,

Frankle says,

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing.

The last of the human freedoms,

to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

And when you read the book you'll know why that's so profound that it came from him because he was in a concentration camp when he came up with his logo therapy.

So actually it's a fabulous book to read, and I want to take off on that quote because there is a gap

between our triggers and our responses.

It's put many different ways, but that's the way I look at it.

Is there is a trigger, then there is the gap, and our response. Now often we don't have much of a gap

or we're not aware of it and what we have is a trigger and a reaction. So let's see

how we can look at this differently today and really start to move into having

awareness of that freedom that you have, it's already there and you just

need to use it, to see it, to be it. So in that space, that gap that we have is our power to choose our own response

versus reacting, versus knee-jerk reactions, habitual reactions, which we all do, but we can also

all change those. In that response lies our opportunity to grow to change and to step

into the best versions of ourselves.

Again, we have the trigger, the gap, and our response.

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