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Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as together

we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm.

In today's episode, I'm talking about four reactive styles that are associated with anxiety.

Now these come up regardless of whether you're an anxious person or you have anxiety or panic or any kind of diagnosis or not.

These will come up anyway, but for some people this has become a habit actually.

Your reactive style could become a habit and you just go there by default.

This is why it's good for us to review these again today and I know we've talked about these in the past, but it's good for us to talk about them again

because we want to keep these top of mind like, oh, am I doing this particular thing as a habit or is this just a one-off my anxiety got triggered and I'm doing this and I don't do it often.

It's just something that came up because of a very stressful time or situation or are you having a reaction and falling into one of these reactive styles.

Now we want to be less reactive in our lives and more responsive and we can become more responsive by having more space within us in order to process things as they are coming up in our lives.

It doesn't mean we need an hour to think about something.

It can all happen quite quickly, but we need the calm nervous system to be able to do it.

That's why we do so many of the other practices that we talk about here so that we can calm our nervous system and have the space to respond to life rather than react.

So let's look at these four reactive styles today. First I'll tell you they are fight, flight, freeze, and please or also known as fawn.

So you can say fight, flight, freeze, and fawn or fight, flight, freeze, or please, which I learned it as please and it is often referred to now as fawn.

So I'll go over each one of them and some of the behaviors that would be associated with each one will do them in order here.

Let's look at fight. What does fight look like when we're triggered into our fighter flight side of our nervous system, our sympathetic side of our nervous system?

We could be feeling rage at the height of it, right? That would be really easily associated with fight.

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