I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello.

How are you doing?

Today I want to talk about how we can use

recognition of certain habits that we engage in

as signs that we are experiencing anxiety.

In doing so we can actually become more mindful, break out of the past, and yes, take better care of us. A couple of

years ago I was in my studio working away and noticed that at the same time

as working that I was brooding about something. I can't even remember what the person had asked, but as is the way

with work, people ask you to do stuff, and clearly you can't do everything.

Some stuff, you just don't have the bandwidth for it

and yeah, some stuff you don't want to do or you don't actually need to do it.

And so, when I am asked to do stuff, there's a part of me that in a

pleaser, the recovering people pleaser in me that does show up. But because I'm

aware of this I am very clear on

recognizing when it is showing up and recognizing when I need want to or should say no.

So I had already said no to whatever it was,

but there I was brooding later on in the day.

And this is something that happens to a lot of us,

where even when we do the thing that we need or want to do

that afterwards we can get a little broody and this is especially if it's actually a

distraction from something else and so I paused and I noticed the thoughts.

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