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.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer.

I'm Shan Vanderleak here with Ananga Severe and together we create the Anxiety Slayer podcasts. We come together weekly on Skype

to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and we often answer listening questions from our

inbox and Facebook page and together Naga and I are

armed with a powerful collection of techniques to help you reduce anxiety.

We love to mix up a potent blend of coaching and storytelling,

yoga, Ayurveda, EFT tapping, along with our own personal experience. And this week we're going to discuss a

listener question that came in about anxiety and hormones specifically for women.

Your podcast has helped me so much. I use many

of your tools and techniques to help calm my anxiety. On most days I'm successful

and I can continue on with my everyday life.

But for about one week out of every month, about five days before my period starts,

it seems like nothing I do helps. My anxiety symptoms and emotions get out of control and I find myself just wanting to stay in bed, miserable and depressed.

Any chance you can do a podcast in regards to anxiety and PMS or hormonal changes.

Thanks so much for your time.

So welcome Ananga and I think this is a great topic for us to cover as we haven't really talked

about anxiety and hormones up until this point.

We haven't.

It's not something we've touched on before and it's something that I have definitely had

personal experience with and I've experienced the havoc it can wreak for you and it took me

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