Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

In our anxiety slide discussions, Shan and I have talked a lot about auditing out the things in your life that feel negative or drain your energy.

In this podcast I want to share a simple exercise that can help you get more specific on that and it's called

the support sheet. The support sheet is simply a piece of paper where you draw a line down the

middle and right at the top how I choose to support myself.

And in the left column you make observations about things that you notice don't support you.

It don't make you feel comfortable, they may drain your energy.

So the left column is unsupportive things to avoid. and the right column of the sheet is supportive things to embrace and it's there that you can note down the things that do make you feel good the things that that help you relax, things that you've noticed help

you manage your stress and anxiety, things that help you feel more comfortable, more confident.

People, places, reading material, audio support, anything that you notice as a positive impact on you and feel supportive. It's important in our lives in general to be able to distinguish between which things are contributing to our overall sense of well-being and which things are detracting from it. It's even more important when we're

struggling with coping with stress and anxiety. As we've discussed before, anxiety can really make your thinking confused and muddy.

So just this simple act of practicing, intelligent, discriminative thinking where you're making healthy choices

and what supports you and what doesn't, is really therapeutic in raining in muddy, anxious thinking to clearing your mind.

Please remember when you're working with your support sheet that it is supposed to be supportive.

It's supposed to be about feeling positive, upbeat and encouraged.

So no shoulds on the support sheet. Not I should do this I should do that. I think I'd be better if I did do this

The support sheet is purely in the present or recent past tense.

It's where you note your observations about what you have done, or what you are doing, that helps you feel better.

Or about your recent discoveries about what isn't helpful to you. People, places, forms of entertainment, coffee, other stimulants, things that you notice are having a detrimental effect on you,

weighing you down or draining your energy. Those things go in the column

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