Anxiety is directly linked to reactive living.

Non-anxious people aren't reactive. That's a quote from Dr. John Delany and it

resonates with me as I have been overcoming my postpartum anxiety.

Anxiety is directly linked to reactive living,

non-anxious people aren't reactive. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our consistency 365 series of the podcast.

Thanks so much for joining me.

I think we can all agree that there's very little that is 100

percent true in every situation and surely there are reactive people who aren't anxious and there are anxious people who wouldn't consider themselves reactive, but on the whole I think there's a lot we can take from this.

That anxiety is linked to being reactive,

and if you are less reactive, you have less anxiety.

Many, many of us are reactive.

We get an email and we react.

Somebody sends us a text message and we react.

We have an interaction with our boss or a coworker and we react.

We see something on social media and we react.

The alternative to that is slowing down and giving time and thought before giving a reaction.

The key I think is the slowing down. Processing before you feel the need to engage in a response.

Before you feel the need to make the comment, before you send the email back, before you open your mouth and continue the conversation that you pause, you consider options other than the first ones that come to your mind.

Maybe you give people grace.

Maybe you try to put yourself in their shoes or try to imagine where they might be coming from or ask where they might

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