Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Digital Diary. I'm your host, Hannah Elise. I wanted to

switch up my usual format today and just get right into the topic that I want to talk about because

this is fresh in my mind and I feel like if I go and talk about random shit, like life update stuff, I will forget it.

And today's episode and topic are very near and dear to my heart because this is something

that I feel like I have found myself having to do quite often.

And so today I wanted to talk about breaking out of an anxiety spiral or how I pull myself

out of an anxiety spiral when I feel myself just going down a downward spiral of anxiety.

These can come up for a multitude of different reasons.

Usually I get anxious or overwhelmed with something. It may be work. It may be social things,

things I need to do, anything. I get overwhelmed and then I get anxiety because of those things.

Because I'm feeling overwhelmed, it kind of turns into anxiety.

And then I kind of just don't want to do anything.

And I sit there almost unable to do any other things I need to do because I am anxious about them.

But then the fact that I'm

not doing anything creates more anxiety. So as you can see, this is a downward spiral. It all

just feeds into itself. And it's very easy for this downward spiral to go down fast and to get

caught in this quickly and just feel like it's really difficult to break

out of. And I wanted to talk about this because I'm feeling a little bit of this today,

definitely not nearly as bad as it has been before or even as bad as it's been in the last couple months. But I just feel a mini

spiral today beginning. And I wanted to make this episode because I am consciously breaking out

of that before it kind of takes me all the way down. And hear me out on this one.

But the other day, I was researching how to break out of a riptide, like in the ocean. And then this

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