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Happy New Year and welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast.

I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Civier.

We come together weekly from Kent and Leilinaw 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. Hey Shan.

Happy New Year to you.

And to you and all our listeners.

It's good to be back together again after a nice break for the holidays to record a brand new podcast and get this year started on the right foot.

And one of the best ways we can do that is to cover in depth more calm and relaxed in 20.

Let's begin with one of supportive anxiety relief practices

that will help our listeners feel more calm and relaxed in 2020.

Let's begin with one of our favorites and that is journaling.

Yeah, journaling for me is such a healing practice. I think the thing I love most about journaling is the clarity it brings if ever I feel that I'm processing something traumatic or anxious or just learning something new, just getting the words out of my head onto the page.

I really love being able to just brain-dump, free right, and then see the clarity and peace that comes from that practice.

There's so much self-compassion when you allow yourself to just let whatever is dancing around in your head land on the page.

I think about many difficult experiences that I've had in my in my past in this lifetime that I've been able to just write about and even inquire about and just let it all go and there's something that helps you feel so much lighter just

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