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

with you an conversation that I had via email with someone that I worked with quite a

while back and he touched in again and I really thought that it might be interesting to share with you and he gave me permission to share it so here we go I'm going to talk to you about not giving up, don't give up on your anxiety journey. It takes time, it takes

patience that I know you don't think you have, but it's in there, And it takes persistence. You need to keep putting the practices into play, and you will really be amazed at some point how your life turns around. I received an email. I'm going to

start at the beginning versus the way it just transpired recently. But back in 2017, I got an email,

very short little email from D, and he says,

in the morning, I always seem to have the butterflies as the day goes they

seem to go away yay this seems to go like clockwork, and I seem to not be worried about anything.

How do I make them go away?

Now, that's a nice short email, but let me tell you how many times I get that very same thing from different people.

It's very common, especially in the morning.

Now, I wrote back to him of course because he was a client and he was asking for some

extra help in between our sessions and so I wrote back and said and said well D first

and foremost you don't make them go away and then in parentheses I said you knew

I was going to say that, right?

I continued saying, this is a wonderful place to actually settle in

with the discomfort of an unwanted sensation because you already know it is not harmful and that it will

go away as the day wears on. Let it be there. This is a place to say, what if this were as good as it gets?

What if this were as good as it gets? What if things were never to change? It's amazing what we make

larger by trying to push it away. I get the feeling that you are paying too much attention to this

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