Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my longtime friend and co-host

the Nanga Severe. We come together weekly from Kent and Lelenaw to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and

answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page. We've been sharing a powerful collection

of techniques to reduce anxiety for over 10 years.

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click on the link in our show notes.

Hello, Ananga.

Hey Shen.

So good to be with you again.

Today we're going to discuss chronic illness and anxiety,

which is inspired by a listener question that we recently receive.

And here's what he says.

I'm a keen follower of your podcast.

Your podcast has really helped me through difficult times calming my anxiety and giving me a calmer mindset.

I've had Crohn's disease for 28 years which in the past has caused me terrible anxiety.

I use your techniques to help calm my anxiety,

and I wonder if it would be possible to focus on chronic illness

in one of your upcoming podcasts. I still find it difficult to accept even after 28 years that my

illness is for life trying to find techniques that help with understanding this mindset would be

really useful. I've scoured the internet for

podcast relating to anxiety and chronic illness but haven't found anything useful.

Keep up the fantastic work you do. We haven't had this question before.

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