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

practicing best and worst case scenarios to ease anxiety.

So if we consider the worst and the best case scenarios as ways to dramatically alter our

perspective and give us some clarity about our fears, this could be really helpful.

So we don't just think about the worst case scenario, which is usually where the anxious mind goes but we want to

consider both the worst and the best. When you feel afraid think about the worst case scenario.

If everything went wrong, what is the worst that could happen?

We're really digging in here again. I know we did this on the last

episode we were digging kind of deep and befriending our fear and saying so what but now we want to also add to that

What if we took that worst-case scenario and really played it up. What if everything went wrong? What is the worst

thing that could happen? Really imagine it right up. I know that you guys have good imagination. I know because I got that too.

We all can go there we can especially when we're going down the negative now what are the odds of

that actually happening that really awful worst case scenario that you came up with. What if the odds of that actually happening?

Probably pretty low.

The worst case very rarely happens.

As an example, say you're afraid of speaking in front of others like

public speaking or are presenting at a meeting, right? Many people have this as a part of where their anxiety

rears its head. The worst that could happen to you is that you freeze up on stage, right?

That's what mostly we're afraid of, that we can't say anything, and that we're horribly and

even if it did it,

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