In this episode we are looking at anxiety

A. K. This is another 101 episode on anxiety, so get pumped because

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Big change. Welcome to another episode.

Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies

you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are looking

at anxiety. This is one of those things that we all struggle with. We've talked about a lot on this show, but the more we understand it,

the more tricks and strategies we have to tackle it, the better off I think we are and it's something that I definitely

struggle with I would say on a day-to-day basis I feel anxious a lot of the time it's

something that Rachel struggles with it's something my mom struggles with. This is probably the most

fundamental human feeling that we all sort of share and deal with on a day-to-day

basis and I think it's important to really understand what we can do about it.

So this is going to be a sort of basics of anxiety episode where we,

the only goal is to fill in some of our gaps and add a real understanding about what anxiety is, what it does, how our brains are handling it, like what's actually happening up there when we feel anxious and what we can do about it, of course, because this is the most practical show in personal development.

Cool. So I appreciate you tuning in and let's jump right into the episode.

So the first question we want to answer is what exactly is anxiety?

So just to tie this back for anyone who maybe doesn't fully understand anxiety.

I want to share this piece of it before we jump into the quotes that I've pulled from other people

purely because this is something that I struggled with a lot.

So I remember growing up I didn't have a word for what I was doing when I felt anxious. I didn't fully understand what anxiety was.

So I would get that feeling, right? That feeling in the pit of my stomach, I would feel the

chills and get goosebumps and shaky and all of that stuff right that I now

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