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 Vanderbilt, here with my wonderful friend and anxiety Slayer partner, Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

And today we're going to discuss three fears that might be stopping you

from asking for help and how you can overcome them.

Hey Ananga, how you doing this week?

Hi Shen! It's wonderful to be together with you again. Nanga, how you doing this week? Hi, Shan.

It's wonderful to be together with you again and sharing a new podcast with our listeners.

I love today's topic and would like you to just jump right in.

I mean, one of the challenges with anxiety is that it can be very isolating.

And anxiety can run around in our head and cause havoc can make it very difficult for us to reach out and ask for help when we need it.

It seems to be different things that can stop us speaking our feelings or asking for support

when we need it.

So if we look at the first one I think the most common one is that we fear appearing

weak.

We live in a society where we're really expected to keep going whatever's going on in our life and to have house and home and our

appearance and everything just so and it puts us under tremendous pressure.

Sometimes it makes it really hard to just reach out to a friend and say,

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