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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

the back and forth motion of clearing anxiety. One of the things

that is very frustrating as we are healing from anxiety or chronic stress and all that

that entails is the feeling of moving forward, making progress, and actually feeling quite proud of that

and maybe even getting to the point where you're not even thinking about anxiety anymore.

You're not paying attention to it.

You're not reading things about anxiety.

You're not googling.

So you're really moving forward and then being triggered or hitting a big bump in the road

and taking a few steps back. It can be so frustrating when clearing yourself out of the anxiety panic cycle. It can feel so frustrating like, oh no, and just when we say that, oh no, that actually is keeping us in the loop. It is keeping us in the cycle.

We are saying, oh no, bad this is dangerous this is trouble but it's not I want to

emphasize that today I want you to be reassured that just because you were triggered and maybe felt some of your old

symptoms or sensations or thoughts, it's okay. You hit a bump in the road. The coronavirus has been a big bump for a lot of people.

It's okay. Doesn't mean anything except that we had some stress that was added on into our lives

and it ramped up our stress hormones.

And we can remember that that's okay and that's natural and that those

feelings do not dictate who we are or what we are so much more than just these stress and anxiety feelings, sensations and thoughts.

They are a product of the body responding to a message that we sent saying we're in danger.

So once we find ourselves in that,

we can just remember, instead of being scared, instead of saying, oh no, here we go again, and believe me, I said that for years.

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