Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my

wonderful friend and co-host in Angasivier. We come together weekly from

Kent and Lelandaw to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page as well as our private group.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

And today we're talking about what you can do when you have an anxiety relapse.

Hello, Ananga?

Hey Shen.

Before we jump into the episode, I was just thinking,

it's exactly two months to the day

that I will be in England

and very close to seeing you in person for the first time and I'm very excited about that.

Oh wow I didn't realize it was coming up that quick. Wow two months of the day.

Yay! I'm excited too.

All right, back into the episode.

This week we're discussing what causes setbacks

or relapses on the road to recovery from anxiety.

We've been hearing from a lot of you about setbacks and relapses,

so we thought we should dig in and talk about that a bit today

so that you have an idea of how to support yourself when anxiety flares up unexpectedly.

Yeah, I think first thing to be aware of is to pause and take a breath and have a look at how your life's been for the last two or three weeks,

maybe even a month, when we can see cause and effect and an anxiety flare doesn't seem so mysterious.

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