Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore

anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them from life.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

And today's episode I want to talk about waiting and the anxiety of waiting.

This is a very familiar term, waiting and anxiety come up together all the time.

I get a lot of email about the distress that comes up from all different kinds of waiting.

So today I wanted to talk about it a little bit more and to see if there are some ways

that we can get to feeling like we can handle this kind of waiting.

It's more of the idea of I can't deal with this, this feeling, right?

That really perpetuates the cycle of the anxiety and the adrenaline and the more fear.

So we can break that and I want to talk about it specifically how to do that today around waiting.

Waiting can feel like torture for somebody with anxiety, so much uncertainty, so much vast open space

of possibilities when we feel like we can fall into this vast open nothingness as we wait for anything,

anything from a medical test result to an election result to our turn in line at the grocery store.

All of these can be triggering in so many other situations also.

But why on earth does this feel so challenging, right?

We have done what we could, right?

And now it's out of our hands, so it seems like we should be able to just let go and wait in peace.

But maybe there is more to it than that when anxiety rears its head while we wait.

Let's see if anxiety has got something for us.

There are different types of anxiety that can arise while waiting and perhaps you have one of

the following type of issues happen to you. First off, you care. Of course you care.

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