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Welcome back to anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my good friend and business partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and often answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

This week we're talking about the fear of suffocation and

hyperventilation, which can be really, really scary.

A few members of our private Facebook group have shared their fears about suffocation and

hyperventilation, and one even shared how this fear has become an anxiety trigger after suffering a

panic attack where they felt like they couldn't breathe and now months later

that fear of not being able to breathe is still coming up as an anxiety trigger.

So Naga and I thought this would be a good topic for us to discuss today.

Welcome back in Nanga. Hey Shen, it's always a pleasure to be with you for another episode of Anxiety Slayer.

And today we're really going to be talking about that daunting discomfort that comes when you feel like you can't breathe.

Yeah, it's a really horrible sensation. How it still haunts us so far after we've had an anxiety attack is

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