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 Vanderleak here with my friend and Slayer Sister Ananga Severe. We come together weekly on Skype to share

anxiety Slayer sessions with you and often answer listener questions from our inbox and

Facebook page.

Together we're armed with a powerful collection of techniques

to reduce anxiety.

And today we're addressing four things that really

help you when you feel stuck with anxiety and you don't know what to do.

Hey Ananga, how are you today?

Hi, Sean, I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Excellent.

Wonderful to be here with you again and ready to jump in and talk about the four things that really help

when we're feeling stuck with anxiety.

Yeah, this was inspired by a post that our friend Michelle Rosenthal from HeelmyPTSD.com put up.

She put up a really supportive article called Five Things to Do when you don't know what to do and it was specific to the recovery from PTSD

so I recommend looking that up also we'll have a link on her website and in her introduction she said it's okay not to know what you're doing.

In fact that's a natural part of the post-trauma world and learning how to

manage that space and grow in it and from it is a major part of healing and I was just thinking that's so true for general anxiety as well so

Inspired by her words I thought it would be good to share with our community for things that can really help because we often have this

thing when we're recovering from anxiety where we think we're doing okay and then all of a sudden we feel really stuck and we're not going any further and of course that brings up a lot of anxious expectations once we start to feel okay with something we really want that to be progressive we really want it to continue and I think

when we get stuck it's one of the most difficult things to deal with and it brings up a lot of

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