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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk to you about the trouble with caffeine when you're anxious.

I'm getting a lot of interesting news come across my desk and some of it is about the health benefits of caffeine and

there is no doubt that caffeine has a place that it has all kinds of benefits and coffee and teas that contain caffeine also have a lot of health benefits.

And so this podcast is not, or this episode today is not particularly

for everyone. I am talking about the trouble with caffeine when you are anxious, when you are someone who has a challenge with your fight or flight reactions reactions with your stress hormones being released a little bit too easily

or an oversensitized amygdala.

There are many different ways that we can go talking about it, but if you are experiencing any of those things

That's what I want to talk about today the caffeine and the anxiety because caffeine is a psychoactive drug no matter what way

you look at it or how much you like it we have to be sure that we understand that it has a lot of psychoactive properties

and those can cause or exacerbate anxiety and other stress-related signs and symptoms that people with anxiety are all

too familiar with. The importance of giving up this quote drug as you are healing and clearing your anxiety is paramount. It's so

important. I get a lot of pushback because I know I have had a relationship with coffee.

Not much of a tea drinker even though I do like a lot of herbal teas. They're not caffeine.

It's not the tea plant right and that's green tea or black tea and all the other forms of tea.

But I understand the relationship that we have with that substance and the caffeine

plays a part in that because it does change how we feel.

Caffeine is the world's favorite mood-altering drug,

and it's easily found in coffee, tea, energy drinks,

various sodas, and in chocolates, but caffeine, especially in people who are sensitive to it, can significantly contribute to anxiety and related conditions and symptoms, including things

like insomnia, irritability, racing heart, heart palpitations, and even full on blown up panic attacks.

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