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 Vanderleake here with my fantastic Slayer sister, Ananga Severe. We come together weekly on Skype to share

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

inbox and Facebook page.

And together, Ananga and I are armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

This week we're going to discuss a listener concern about anxiety and chronic illness.

Hey Ananga, lovely to be with you again this week.

Hi Shen.

So this is something that we hear of often and something that you have personal

experience with chronic illness and the anxiety around what that feels like and how to best manage chronic illness.

I'd love for you to share some of your thoughts and tips and successes around managing chronic illness if you would.

I'm happy to, as you're aware, I've lived with chronic illness on and off throughout my adult life.

It started when I was about 18 years of age and I would have spells of just

completely non-functionality just being stuck in bed for a few weeks and then I'd get back to

a normal life again and then when I was in my

mid 30s I had a prolonged spell of my body just giving up and being in bed for months.

And ever since then I'm now in my late 40s I haven't

managed to return to normal functioning what I would consider a normal healthy life.

I'm grateful to say that I'm better than I was, but I'm not

better, completely better. I've had to spend a lot of time learning

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