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

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

Hello, how 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 why gratitude actually reduces anxiety.

We talk here on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast a lot about gratitude.

It's mentioned in many episodes and there are full episodes about gratitude and how

to practice gratitude, how to bring more of it into your life.

But today I thought we would look at it as to why the gratitude helps to reduce your anxiety.

Life is a full spectrum of things that we want and of things that we don't want.

The ups and downs are also not predictable and this can at times throw us off kill enough

to be feeling anxiety, depression, and or physical health issues.

And year after year, we seem to move faster and faster at a pace that leaves us less time

to be dedicated to reflecting and seeing the good and the joy that we do have in our life

and actually stopping to be thankful for it or as the old saying goes, stop and take

some time to smell the roses.

Gratitude is not fluffy, it is a very powerful emotion.

And the research suggests that by practicing gratitude, we can reduce anxiety.

Now people feel and express gratitude in multiple ways.

They can apply it to the past, they can apply it to the present, or they can apply it to

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