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

how to deal with the fear that your anxiety is coming again. So this is another way of saying

the fear of the fear. It's a real sticking point with clearing anxiety is being at the end here and feeling that the fear is coming on again.

I was prompted to talk feeling that the fear is coming on again.

I was prompted to talk about this from,

again, I'm digging into the emails here.

I received an email from M. I she said thank you for this podcast I so often say oh no here we go again

and would like to learn how to recognize that I'm not taking those steps

backwards. I have dealt with anxiety for 40 years and I feel I've had enough. Thank you for giving me a little hope, am I?

Thank you so much for sending that in and yeah, 40 years is a long time to be dealing with this and it's not uncommon.

I struggled for 20 years of anxious feelings of early on panic attacks and I get mail all the time from people

who have struggled for a long time. Many people realizing at some point in their lives as an adult that oh that's what I

was struggling with as a kid that's what those feelings were and maybe it had never been diagnosed or when I didn't I was not anxious as a child, but I know when I was a kid nobody was talking about it when I was a young adult nobody was talking about anxiety. It was you were nervous or you had the nerves. I'm

really dating myself so I'll stop there. But it's a sticking point, this feeling of that it's coming back again.

I guess this is probably why I had to read this email to you all because she has it in quotes it says oh no here we go again those were

my words it was how I felt in the morning because I would have morning anxiety because I was sensitive to my own cortisol.

So I would have that feeling and it would rise up through my whole body and I would say those exact words,

oh no, here we go again. And I hear other people use this term also and that in and of itself is what

sends us around again on that loop of fear, adrenaline fear. It's enough that our cortisol is waking us up and

giving us those feelings and that was in my case, but then I would throw a little bit more gasoline on that fire and say,

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