Welcome to the Slayer sessions with Shannon and Hanga. Our mission is to wipe out the fear and discomfort of anxiety.

Ananga, it's so good to be together with you again for another.

Ananga, it's so good to be together with you again for another anxiety slayer interview.

It's been too long.

Yeah, it's really good to be connected with you again, Shan.

Of course, we're always connected connected but it's good to be talking

about what we have on our agenda today. Yeah I think so and what we decided would be a

good place to start for the new year is with the question does anxiety have a tipping point and

when that came up I thought wow what a great topic to share with our listeners to talk about what that really means and you know what do we mean by tipping point

To me you hear the term tipping point and it always reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's work.

But in this context, one of our readers left a comment on the website just directly asking the

question, does anxiety have a tipping point? And it really

grabbed my attention and I thought it was something that would be very good for us

to address together because of course it does and I think the most difficult thing about anxiety for a lot of people is the mystery and the confusion and the bewilderment where it appears to come from absolutely nowhere and just hit you sideways and you may feel the one minute

you're coping okay with everything and the next you're not and that's because the

anxiety has been accumulating perhaps beneath our level of awareness so it feels sudden

and terrible but there is that tipping point there and I think just

understanding that like the straw that broke the camels back, that one last little thing that can push you over the edge.

For me, knowing that's a relief because you can look back at the previous straws and the way things have lined up and you can just start

to unpack things and start to get a sense of clarity.

I agree. I was thinking about different examples of tipping points for stress and anxiety in my own life and I'm not proud to admit that there are many of them

That there are these places and points and times where like you said you don't even know that it's accumulating and then some

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