Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderlich here with my Slayer's sister Ananga Civier. We come together weekly on Skype to share

Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and we often answer listener questions from our inbox and

Facebook page and together we're armed with a

powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. This week we're going to

share a conversation about a book that Anaga has been reading and has been

highlighting almost every page. So this was a book that we felt you needed to know about.

Good morning or good afternoon, Anaga.

It's wonderful to connect with you again this week.

Good morning, Shen.

I'd love for you to tell us about this book that you've been reading, I believe it's called

Living Well with Pain and Illness, the mindful way to free yourself from suffering.

I'd love to try and pronounce the author's name but I think I'll leave that to you.

Her name is Vidjamaer Birch, B-U-R-C-H.

And yeah, it's been a very supportive and an inspiring read for healthy coping mechanisms when we're faced with long-term adversity.

Let's talk about some of the lessons that have come forth for you through reading this book I absolutely

love the title living well with pain and illness the mindful way to free yourself

from suffering it it's such a hopeful title, isn't it?

It is. What attracted me to reading this book is, as you know, I have some ongoing health issues myself.

Chronic illness stemming back over 10 years.

So every so often I like to make sure I'm trying to keep my attitude

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