831 How to Manage Anxiety in Anxious Times (And What to Look at First)
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
For the past six months, people have been asking me to do an episode on managing anxiety. We are living in genuinely anxious times, and the real things to be anxious about are not in short supply. So here it is.
For me, anxiety feels like unease. Like I am forgetting something. Like something is wrong, even when I cannot point to what it is.
I have noticed a clear uptick in clients describing this lately, too. Difficulty sleeping, intrusive thoughts, a body that cannot relax, the sense of panic gathering. This is anxiety that interferes with daily life and makes it difficult, or even impossible, to do the things we want to do. If this is you, you are not alone, and there are things that help.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to this episode of The Terry Cole Show. On today's episode, I am actually |
| 0:06.8 | responding to a bunch of emails that I got from you guys, where you really wanted me to talk about |
| 0:12.7 | ways that you can feel empowered to manage your own anxiety. There is a lot going on in this world that is exacerbating people's anxiety. |
| 0:26.1 | So we have some people who are already suffer from anxiety and then living in a very unstable |
| 0:32.1 | world, which we are at this moment in time. And there's a lot of bad news and there's a lot of things changing. |
| 0:39.4 | That can actually just make the anxiety worse. |
| 0:43.8 | So when we're talking about anxiety, we're really not talking about a moment in time |
| 0:48.4 | or having a worry about something. |
| 0:50.3 | We're talking about something that feels a little bit more chronic, where it's almost like for me, |
| 0:57.0 | the anxiety that I've been experiencing, and don't worry, everything I'm teaching you today, I do |
| 1:01.1 | myself, is, you know, there's this low-grade dread or this fear or this sense that like another |
| 1:07.4 | shoe is going to drop or something is wrong. So we have to look at anxiety as a response, right? |
| 1:13.8 | It's our nervous system trying to protect us. |
| 1:17.8 | And if you were a high functioning codependent, right, |
| 1:21.0 | we're already coming a lot of times, many of us, |
| 1:24.5 | from a place or a state of hypervigilance because we're very dialed into what's going on |
| 1:29.9 | around us and that takes a lot of bandwidth but it's like being on high alert so we are working |
| 1:36.7 | over time our nervous system is working overtime so in today's episode i'm going to be talking |
| 1:42.9 | about my top five ways that you can manage |
| 1:45.4 | anxiety that are actually doable in your real life. So before we get into it, I just want to |
| 1:51.4 | take a minute to say thank you so much for being here. I really, really appreciate it. |
| 1:56.4 | You could be doing anything else. I hope you are doing something else and taking me with you. |
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