Welcome. Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my good friend and

partner Ananga Severe. Our mission is to help you slay your anxiety. In this week's Anxiety Slayer

podcast, we're inviting you to cultivate more joy in your life. Everyone experiences stress and anxiety at different times and at varying

degrees in their lives. This doesn't mean that your every waking hour has to be anxiety-ridden. You can learn to manage anxiety and enjoy a full

and happy life and that's what we're going to be talking about today. Welcome

back for another week in Anga.

Hey Shen.

It's good to be with you and to talk about

how we shouldn't let anxiety suck the joy out of our lives.

And before we started recording today,

we were just talking about that,

how sometimes if you have a pain in your body

or if you are stressed about something that's ahead of you or just have a bad day or whatever,

how that can take your eye off the greater picture, the bigger picture, to remember that that particular instance, that situation, whatever it is that you're experiencing, is not a representation of your life.

It's a moment in time.

And that moment can sometimes stretch on for longer than we like, of course,

but it's only one piece.

It's not the whole thing.

And you deserve to be and to enjoy your life,

to be happy and to have so much more joy than what we sometimes allow ourselves.

Yeah, or what we can sometimes reclaim, which is what we're really going to be talking about today, isn't it?

I think sometimes in my experience with

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