Hello, my chickens. I want to talk to you about anxiety. That's obviously something we talk about a lot on the podcast, but I want to talk to you about a specific kind of anxiety. And that is what I call socially programmed anxiety. This is a new concept and tool that I have created as I've been thinking about what it is about the type of anxiety that so many of my listeners and students and clients and followers and myself and my friends all experience and what makes it different from some other

forms of anxiety.

Socially programmed anxiety is the specific kind of anxiety that women and people socialize this women feel that comes from trying to live up to the impossible expectations of our culture. It's the specific kind of anxiety that we have about not

being able to look the way that we're told we need to look, always behave perfectly,

get everything right all the time, keep everyone else happy, always

put everyone else first, control the universe, while always putting ourselves last. Right?

It's that anxiety that comes from worrying

that other people are mad at you all the time

or feeling bad and guilty about what you eat

or whether you exercise or how your stomach looks or feeling

uncomfortable in all of your clothes because you don't look like a 17 year old

runway model. It's all of those kinds of anxieties that come specifically from the way that society teaches us to think about ourselves.

And I think this is why so much of what we learn as like an antidote to anxiety does not help, right?

Exercise is not going to help with your socially programmed anxiety, right?

Yoga is not going to help your socially programmed anxiety.

Whatever interventions people tend to prescribe literally or metaphorically for anxiety,

I think don't work on socially programmed anxiety because socially programmed anxiety isn't like your biology going haywire or you know something like that it's just very specifically and kind of rationally a reaction to what we're taught to think

about ourselves and who we're taught we're supposed to be by society and so that's

really why the only way to fix it is by changing your thoughts and

changing your brain to address the cause of socially programmed anxiety.

So I'm really obsessed with this concept and teaching how to really like isolate and identify

and change socially programmed anxiety right now. So I want to invite you all to

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