Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shannon Vanderleak here with my

wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe. We come together weekly from

Ken and Leelenaw to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer

your listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. This week we're talking about

getting through the things we face in life that can feel so overwhelming.

Hi Ananga, hey Shen. I was just realizing that it's like a month from today that I'll be heading to England and and will be in the same room with you and I'm so excited to give you a big hug and and see your

beautiful face. Me too it's amazing after 10 years of friendship and we finally get

to hug and laugh in the same space.

Yeah, it's going to be fantastic.

Well, today we're talking about something that's really important

that all of us faces human beings and that's getting through the things that come up in life that we

face in life that can feel very very overwhelming and as you know when the little

things feel big and too much to cope with it's usually a

nudge that we need to slow down and take better care of ourselves. Yeah something to

watch out for with overwhelmed sometimes there are the bigger events coming up that we need to prepare for and support ourselves for.

Sometimes it's the little things that just feel too much, even the simplest things like getting up and making your bed and that's

when we really need to take care of ourselves and listen in.

Overwhelme can be a response to anxiety, to change in our life, to trauma, exhaustion, physical or mental

exhaustion, or depression it can be an indicator that we're feeling quite low and while we often feel like we

should push through it's seldom helpful so I think really the message of this

episode is about listening in and responding to overwhelm rather than reacting,

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