Hey guys. Welcome to Episode 18 of Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me for today's episode is Erica Latham from the babybroad.com.

Hi, Erica. Hey there. How are you? Good. How are you? 18 already?

Yeah, I know. Pretty soon we're going to be legal to drink. Right now, we're, you know.

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It feels like just yesterday when I was laughing in your face when you asked me to do this.

My how we've grown.

How we've grown.

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Thank you. Thanks so much. It's me being assertive. Way back and or aggressive. And or aggressive borderline.

So today's episode is going to be an exercise in navigating challenging emotions like

anxiety. And a few episodes back, we introduced an exercise in navigating anxious thoughts. So

today's episode is a bit of a sister episode, if you will. Yay sisters. So sometimes we know exactly why we're feeling anxious.

We're very aware of the scary thoughts passing through our mind.

But sometimes anxiety or even panic can come out of the blue.

We're sitting there, minding our own business, and boom, a wave of uneasiness comes,

or a wave of fear, or a wave of insecurity, or even a wave of uneasiness comes or a wave of fear or a wave of insecurity or even a wave of panic.

So this exercise, called rain, can be particularly helpful in those situations.

Keep in mind going back to episode three that approaching an exercise like this won't be particularly helpful if the intent is to get rid of anxiety.

However, it can be really helpful if your intent is to get rid of anxiety. However, it can be really helpful

if your intent is to understand your relationship with anxiety better. I feel like I needed to do,

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