Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my

sweet friend and co-host Ananga Severe. For almost 11 years we've been coming together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw to share

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Today we're speaking about how you can regain calm when anxiety hijacks your brain, something that we're both very much aware of.

Hi Ananga, how are you?

Hi Shen, I'm good, thank you.

It's good to be back with you after taking some time off

this summer that we both needed,

and I'm grateful for the time,

and also very grateful to be back together with you talking about something that could there be anything more important than learning how to regain calm when anxiety hijacks your brain. This is an excellent subject.

So thank you for putting our notes together today. I really appreciate it.

So glad we're talking about this.

Yeah, I think it's really an important topic. It's something

that's been on my mind over the last couple of weeks as I've been listening to and responding

to clients and noting some conversations and concerns in our group and just hearing

people around me at this really unusual time, with so many challenges, many of the same and many different depending on individual circumstances.

And I'm hearing and seeing a lot of elevated anxiety

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