Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches

Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I want to talk about

why anxiety is so common and I'm hoping this will be a little bit of an overview for

you of anxiety and maybe a little refresher and for some of you just tuning in

for maybe the first time this might be an

introduction to what anxiety is and specifically I want to talk about why it's so common, why we have this, what is going on.

And I want you to hopefully get from this podcast today how this isn't really your body working against you. So often people

come to me feeling like they have been betrayed by their own body and mind.

And this is not the case, and I'm hoping that this episode will help you see that clearly.

Anxiety disorders can come in so many different forms.

You can have everything from OCD to social anxiety and even simple phobias and they are maintained and brought about by so many different mechanisms such

as signal anxiety, fear of the emotion within.

And these are things that we don't often talk about,

but this is important to understand

that there are so many different ways that this can come about.

So let's talk about some of those today. Another one

would be dealing with existential problems such as the fact that everything

changes and that loss is inevitable is a form of anxiety.

Without knowing it at the time, it turns out that in my own journey I found mindfulness practices on my own and that they were

powerful in helping me through the anxiety and beyond with life's difficult times even after I no longer

had a fear of the fear which is what I call the anxiety panic. And so mindfulness I really believe can set you free. And so what

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