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

about Stoicism and I want to talk about five ways that stoicism can help ease

your anxiety. I don't talk about this a lot here but it actually was a part of my own healing was running

into quite by accident some stoic philosophy. So while there's no real magic pill or potion that will

eradicate anxiety, since it's part of our natural biology to be able to have those kind of feelings, we can find

different ways out of it which is totally what we talk about here. So I wanted to share

a article, a little bit some pieces of it. I will have a link to the entire

article in the show notes and it was a post by Catherine Tate about Stoicism and anxiety.

So what is Stoicism?

What are we talking about here?

Stoicism was first taught in the streets of Athens in 300 b c.

It later swept through Rome and which is why some of the most famous

stoic philosophers were Roman like Seneca and Epictetus and the Emperor

Marcus Aurelius.

So Epictetus was one of the Stoics that I read when I was working my way out of my anxious days and I had a copy of

this tiny little book I actually sold it in my shops in New York of his and it was really a book that I went back to over and over again

this little tiny book was so deep as far as what it made so much sense to me

and it helped me shift my attitude and that is a lot of the

problems that we have with anxiety is in our attitude and much in the same way that Buddhist philosophy had helped me.

That's what I was finding in some of this Stoic philosophy in particular Epictetus.

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