Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderbilt here with my wonderful friend and

co-host and hungasivere. We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandanaw to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page. Together we share a powerful collection of techniques

to reduce anxiety.

Hello, Ananga.

Patient.

Always good to be with you for another episode of Anxiety Slayer.

This week we're responding to a question about addressing the unwanted thoughts and painful

emotions that often come with anxiety.

What helps?

Anxiety is so challenging on our thinking because very often we fear that we're going

crazy or we're broken or that there's something deeply wrong with us or we go into a state of painful isolation where we think

it's just us and that's been one of the most wonderful things to witness in our

private Facebook group of the members supporting each other there

and been able to say, it isn't just me. I thought I was alone in this, but I'm not.

Usually whatever gets posted or shared somebody else chimes in and says, I know how that feels I have that too so

that really helps knowing that we're not alone and knowing that it's the nature of

the mind to have unwanted thoughts and to cause us mental anguish,

mental pain and understanding that we're not our mind, that our mind isn't our core

identity and that our thoughts aren't necessarily true. They're not truths. They are just

thoughts. Those are really good places to begin. Somebody came up with a quote many years ago, don't always believe everything you think.

I don't know who that person was, but I thought that is so smart. What a great thing to remember. Yeah, something we've talked about in

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