Hello anxiety slayers I'm Shan van der Leek here with my good friend and

co-host in Angasivier and this week's anxiety slayer podcast we're

responding to the question how can I help myself when my anxiety gets triggered?

Welcome back in Nanga. Hey Shen, always good to spend time with you and I'm glad

we're talking about this because right now so many of the people in our group are feeling triggered and have been asking us what they can do when that comes up so that doesn't go into a full-blown anxiety attack.

Yeah.

Where do we begin?

The first thing really is to take a self-order to step back. The anxious mind when we get triggered will panic. It will fear itself. We fear anxiety. We fear anxiety is coming back and we start having thoughts like I can't cope or I thought

I was over this so to just step back take a deep breath and have a look at anything behind the trigger.

Do you know what triggered you?

Have you seen things in the last few weeks or even months that have been piling up and increasing anxiety.

Is there anything you can cut out, anything you can reduce that you feel is firing up anxiety. We tend to go into full-blown

anxiety mode where we get trapped in by the anxiety from taking care of ourselves, but the first

step really is to have a lot and see

what's triggering me and is there anything practical I can do about it.

Let's talk about some of the common anxiety triggers.

I know that the first one that comes up for me is disturbing news.

There has been so much of it over the last couple years and frankly let's be honest there's

been so much of it ever since the invention of the news media right because they're looking for these stories that are big stories that are often very

sad and very disturbing and cause their own host of triggers depending on who you are in your

background and your upbringing and what you've experienced up until this point in

your life.

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