Anxiety first thing in the morning
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Waking up with anxiety first thing in the morning is a horrible feeling, but it makes a lot of sense when you understand the hormones at play. In this specific audio guide, I walk you through the experience of morning anxiety as it's happening, helping to set you up for a calmer day.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforin.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, welcome to owning it real time. In this audio guide, |
| 0:24.6 | we're going to move through the feeling of anxiety first thing in the morning, which from my experience |
| 0:29.5 | can be pretty intense and very physical too. This is not how you want to start your day. I know. |
| 0:36.4 | I've been there so many times. |
| 0:38.3 | But we can turn it around. |
| 0:40.3 | First we have to understand why it's happening. |
| 0:43.3 | I promise you you are not going crazy and this actually makes a lot of sense when you are familiar with the hormones at play. |
| 0:49.3 | And then we need to address it by simply moving our bodies and adjusting our perception of this particular kind of anxiety. |
| 0:58.0 | My mornings, when my anxiety was at its worst, used to be really, really hard. |
| 1:02.0 | I would feel it coursing through my body before I'd even opened my eyes. |
| 1:06.0 | Sometimes it would pull me from my sleep only to have me start my day on an anxious note, |
| 1:11.3 | filling me with dread about what lies ahead. |
| 1:13.9 | I did not want to get up, I did not want to move. |
| 1:16.6 | My body would ache and feel very uncomfortable. |
| 1:19.5 | I didn't understand it. I was afraid that maybe I was imagining it. |
| 1:23.5 | I was scared to feel that way and for a long time I just, I didn't get it. Now that I do though, whenever this feeling of morning anxiety comes along and it's very, very rare these days, |
| 1:33.3 | it's always very short-lived and it's something I can move beyond within minutes. |
| 1:38.3 | It never dictates the rest of my day and we'll get you to that point as well. |
| 1:43.3 | So if you're still in bed as you listen to this |
| 1:45.8 | gently pull your knees up to your chest and give yourself a hug. Now sit up, bring your feet to the |
| 1:53.9 | ground and if you feel that you can move your body around the room. Maybe raise your arms above your head and have a good stretch. |
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