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 Vanderleak here with my friend and partner Ananga Severe, celebrating five years of coming

together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and to answer

listening questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Ananga and I love to mix up a potent blend of coaching,

storytelling, Ayurveda, yoga, guided relaxations,

and EFT Tapping, along with our many years of personal experience.

This week we received the question, can you speak to why dark evenings make my anxiety worse? When I read that I thought you know that's true isn't it?

It really can kick things up so I'm glad we're talking about that today.

Nanga welcome. Hi Shen who to knew that dark evenings could amplify anxiety?

Yeah, I've been hearing a lot over the last couple of weeks, a lot of people telling me

all of a sudden my anxiety is so much worse and I can't understand why.

So I think this is a really important thing to talk about because this seasonal change

over from summer to autumn where all of a sudden the evenings really do start to get

darker and we find ourselves with a lot less sunlight a lot less daylight it can

have a really big impact on anxiety and for me just knowing that helps

knowing that we might not necessarily be having a big relapse we might not

necessarily have dropped the ball and be doing something wrong but we are

dealing with a seasonal transition which is the toughest one for anxiety sufferers.

And I suspect that one of the best things that you can do this time of year is make the most of what light we do have.

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